Thanks Quotes

Be thankful and joyful.Be content with life.Make the most of every situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find joy in the faces of children who view life as so magical. Give thanks every day for your life and for your existence. Your life matters, you matter. So many people think and care about you and you’re never really alone! Remember your loved ones are the real gift. I care about you; you have a friend in me. Look forward to knowing that next year is going to be even better than the last…

~ James A. Murphy

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

~ David Steindl-Rast

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

~ Gaylord Nelson

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

~ James Altucher

Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light.

~ Kamand Kojouri

You can be assured, though, that prayer is unbounded, undetermined, and untethered. We may end a certain series of spoken words, but the spirit of the prayer stays with us, walks out the door, and down the street with us. At any moment of the day, we can pop back into that same spirit with just a pause on a bridge, the thought of a friend, or the whispered word, “thanks.

~ David Brazzeal

There is a little word that we can say to others now. Thank You Very Much.

~ Marya Sy

For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No one thanks you for showing them the light.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

Brighten the corner where you are. You don’t blame God for placing you in a dark corner… You rather have to thank him for giving you the light to make it bright!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.

~ Ann Voskamp

Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.

~ Lailah Gfty Akita

To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.

~ Martin Short

There are Atheists in foxholesAtheists in hurricanesThere are Atheists in all the rolesDenied by your refrainsAtheists are your fellow citizensPeople who love and laugh and cryAtheists are your relatives and friendsDon't insult them with a lieAtheists in many foxholes servedAnd some have had to dieGive Atheists the thanks deservedDon't dismiss them with a lieAtheists are all around youThey work, they help, they careAnd no matter what you think is trueAtheists are everywhereAnd no matter what you think is trueThey do not want your prayer

~ Edwin Kagin

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

~ Amit Kalantri

Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.

~ Shirley Corder

A little thank you that you will say to someone for a little favour shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen greater favours. Learn to say thank you and why not?

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Give more, don't expect not to be repaid. Give more thanks for what you haven’t expected but received!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes, we wait on God for special things to happen extraordinarily in our lives before we understand that God is working. Meanwhile, there are super-special things that fill our life barrels in minute drops, but they go unappreciated!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never Kill your What Ifs,But first be Grateful for What Is.

~ Drishti Bablani

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.

~ Ann Brashares

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. If I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging that it comes from Him.

~ Brother Lawrence

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have ‘nothing’ so that I can finally learn how to appreciate ‘everything’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I am thankful to God for the grace of being alive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks. p. 58

~ Ann Voskamp

Saying thank you signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

~ Amit Kalantri

When I wake up each morning, my first thought, is thanks be to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude begins with counting your blessings. In simpler terms, gratitude is expressing thanks for gifts we receive. Genuine gratitude helps us to see the little things in life that are often overlooked, yet so precious.

~ Dana Arcuri

A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough