Gratitude Quotes and Sayings

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All that we behold is full of blessings. – William Wordsworth

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. – John Dryden

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. – Aldous Huxley

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – G.K. Chesterton

Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. – Albert Schweitzer

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. – Henry Miller

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. – Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. – Jacqueline Winspear

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy. – M.J. Ryan

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. – Rabbi Harold Kushner

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. – Thomas Fuller

Gratitude is the best attitude. – Author Unknown

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. – Albert Schweitzer

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. – Wallace Wattles

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. – Adabella Radici

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. – Christiane Northrup

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. – Joseph Wood Krutch

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more. – Brother David Steindl-Rast

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally “count our blessings,” give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have. – Shakti Gawain

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes. – Oprah Winfrey

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand. – Will Carleton

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. – Marcus Aurelius

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. – G.B. Stern

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. – Henry Clay

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. – Eric Hoffer

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. – Marcus Annaeu

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought. – Ovid


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