Thankful Quotes

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

William Faulkner

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

Jacques Maritain

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

Alfred Painter

"Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace."

Todd Stocker

"When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."

Kristin Armstrong

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals."

Roy T. Bennett

"Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift."

John Ortberg

"The grateful mind continually fixes its attention upon the best."

Wallace D. Wattles

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

Henri Nouwen

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

Thornton Wilder

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

Steve Maraboli

"Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity."

Eckhart Tolle

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

A. A. Milne

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

Kahlil Gibran

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

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

W. T. Purkiser

"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins."

Neale Donald Walsch

"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic."

John Henry Jowett

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot."

Alice Walker

"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

"Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life."

"Give me only so much that my family is cared for; that I do not go hungry, and no guest at my door leaves hungry."

Kabir

"Even a millet-seed of help, to those who know its worth, is as large as a palm tree."

Thiruvalluvar