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Some of our favorite gratitude quotes and sayings.
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.”
~French Proverb
” In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.”
~Thomas Erskine
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
~Sarah Caldwell
“Let’s be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.”
~Marcel Proust
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ”
~William Faulkner
“Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.”
~Thomas Fuller
“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
~Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. ”
~R.H. Blyth
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
~Aldous Huxley
“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”
~Chinese Proverb
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward
“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality”
~Alfred Painter
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
~Cicero
“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
~ Edward Gibbon
“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
~Johannes A. Gaertner
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
~Marcel Proust
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
~Meister Eckhart
“Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”
~Rabindranath Tagore
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
~Henry Ward Beecher
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
~Denis Waitley
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
~John E. Southard
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. ” ~Frank A. Clark
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
~Epictetus
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~ Gladys Browyn Stern
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
~Lionel Hampton
“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
~ Dorothy Parker
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
~William Arthur Ward
“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
“To the grateful man give more than he asks.”
~Spanish Proverb
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
~ Anthony Robbins
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
~Italian Proverb
“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.”
~Sam Walton
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ”
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
~G.B. Stern
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic”
~John Henry Jowett
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
~Margaret Cousins
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
~Brian Tracy
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
~Eric Hoffer
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
~Henry Clay
“Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ”
~Verbena Woods
“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”
~Alfred Painter
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
~Jean Baptiste Massieu