Gratitude Quotes

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer."

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude."

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling."

Henry Van Dyke

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot."

Rudyard Kipling

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

William Arthur Ward

"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."

G. B. Stern

"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks."

"Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it."

Florence Nightingale

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness."

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?"

"He who kills gratitude can never escape, though he may escape after destroying every other virtue."

Thiruvalluvar

"Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift."

Henri Nouwen

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

Steve Maraboli

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

A. A. Milne

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

"The value of help is not measured by the help itself, but by the worth of the one who receives it."

Thiruvalluvar

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude."

Harold Kushner

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

G. K. Chesterton

"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life – in all human life."

Sri Chinmoy

"I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."

Benjamin Disraeli

"There are 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 thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."