Quotes on Gratitude

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 (Nobel Price winner, theologian, musician, medical doctor)

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

~ Alfred Painter

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little,

and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die;

so, let us all be thankful.

~ Buddha

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

~ Cicero (Roman statesman, philosopher, greatest orator of his time)

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

~ Eric Hoffer (American, social writer, received “Presidential Medal of Freedom”, died 1983)

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.

No Americans have been more impoverished than these who,

nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

~ H. U. Westermayer

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

~ Margaret Cousins (American journalist & writer)

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity....

It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing,

and mistakes into important events.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

~ Melodie Beattie (American journalist & writer, lives in California)

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

~ William James (American psychologist & philosopher, died 1910)

First of all, you must never complain.

Learn how not to complain and how not to be discouraged at the time of difficulties;

learn how not to be exhausted after a long day of hard work.

God can find out what kind of personality you are only in the time of difficulty.

~ Rev. S. M. Moon

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

~Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude is a sign of noble souls.

~ Aesop

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 best attitude.

~ Anonymous

Gratitude can only be given, not taken.

~ Anonymous