Thankfulness famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.
-- Betty Eadie -
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
-- Bill Vaughan -
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
-- Billy Graham -
Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.
-- Billy Graham -
No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.
-- Billy Graham -
Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.
-- Billy Graham -
I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.
-- Billy Sheehan -
I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.
-- Brenda Lee -
What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.
-- Brené Brown -
I would like to thank my coach for believing in me
-- Carlos Tevez -
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
-- Christopher Eccleston -
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
-- Daniel Defoe -
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.
-- George Vandeman -
But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.
-- Harry Anderson -
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.
-- Hilary Swank -
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
-- James Brown -
I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.
-- James Taylor -
Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.
-- Jerry Bridges -
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
-- Jerry Reed -
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..
-- Joel Osteen -
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
-- John Bunyan -
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
-- John Frusciante -
I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
-- John Gresham Machen -
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
-- John Henry Jowett -
I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
-- Justin Timberlake -
I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.
-- Mark Harmon -
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
-- Mark Victor Hansen -
A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
-- Michael Newdow -
I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
-- Ralph Stanley -
I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
-- Richard Pryor -
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson -
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
-- Rumi -
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
-- Storm Jameson -
This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.
-- Susan Dey -
Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.
-- Theodor Haecker -
And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.
-- Trish Stratus -
I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
-- Wilkie Collins -
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
-- William Bennett -
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
-- William Blake -
Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.
-- William George Jordan -
For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.
-- Yip Harburg -
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.
-- John Taylor
