Gratitude Quotes

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. --Voltaire

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

--Alfred Painter

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

--Brother David Steindl-Rast

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

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

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

--Meister Eckhart

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

--Richard Bach

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

--Doris Day

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

--Eric Hoffer

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

--Albert Schweitzer

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth.. love and prayer.

--John Templeton

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

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

--Cicero

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

--Roberto Benigni

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

--Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

--Jonathan Edwards

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

--Lionel Hampton

A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer.

--Ephraim Gotthold Lessing

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

--Albert Clarke

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.

--Sam Lefkowitz

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein

I hope these gratitude quotations helped you find appreciation. ~Adam

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