Showing your gratitude not only makes you happier, but also makes your relationships better. You can change your outlook on appreciation, learn how do you express gratitude to someone, and put things into perspective with these inspirational gratitude quotes below. Being a grateful person would you give a bigger life.
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Best Gratitude Quotes
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
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
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
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul. Amy Collette
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. Elie Wiesel
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. Henri Frederic Amiel
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
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
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth
Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are. Bethany Hamilton
No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. Alfred North Whitehead
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire
In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. Anthony Robbins
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. Lionel Hampton
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
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Tecumseh
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful. Al Jarreau
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert C. Chesterton
Be grateful in your own hearts. That suffices. Thanksgiving has wings, and flies to its right destination. Victor Hugo
Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things. Rhonda Byrne
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G.K. Chesterton
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
I feel a very unusual sensation if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. Benjamin Disraeli
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. Eileen Caddy
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle
Two kinds of gratitude The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. Edwin Arlington Robinson
I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved. Reba McEntire
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes. Sri Chinmoy
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it. Michael Josephson
As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. James E. Faust
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. William James
The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see. Mary Davis
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone. Gertrude Stein
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. William James
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. Ralph H. Blum
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. Neal A. Maxwell
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
The root of joy is gratefulness. David Steindl Rast
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Make it a habit to tell people, thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it. Ralph Marston
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus
Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. Alice Walker
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
Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to Thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.Thomas Aquinas
Being thankful is not always experienced as a natural state of existence, we must work at it, akin to a type of strength training for the heart. Larissa Gomez
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 Barnes
Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. Henry Ward Beecher
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. Harry A. Ironside
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
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. W. T. Purkiser
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
Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. Irving Berlin
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
For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. Charlotte Brontë
I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go. Amy Poehler
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing. Hannah Whitall Smith
Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity. Eckhart Tolle
No duty is more urgent than giving thanks. James Allen
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
Whatever we are waiting for peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
