Thankful famous quotes
04-20-2025
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
-- Alan Cohen -
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley -
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
-- Dalai Lama -
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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 -
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
-- George Canning -
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
-- Grace Noll Crowell -
Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
-- Grenville Kleiser -
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
-- Henry Clay -
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude
-- James Arthur Ray -
Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about
-- John Frederick Demartini -
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
-- Joseph Addison -
Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life
-- Marci Shimoff -
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
-- Martin Luther -
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
-- Maya Angelou -
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
-- Melody Beattie -
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
-- Robert South -
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach -
Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.
-- Terry Taylor -
The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
-- Wallace D. Wattles -
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.†—
-- William Arthur Ward -
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
-- William Arthur Ward -
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
-- William Blake -
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
-- Wilson Mizner -
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-- Woody Allen -
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
-- Lupita Nyong'o -
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
-- Albert C. Barnes -
People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.
-- Richard Carlson -
Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.
-- Rosanne Cash
