Thankful Quotes

"The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."

Mother Teresa

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

Neal A. Maxwell

"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

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."

Ralph H. Blum

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Benjamin Disraeli

"Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows."

Alan Cohen

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

Charles Schwab

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

Margaret Cousins

"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."

William Makepeace Thackeray

"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

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

Garrison Keillor

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."

Gerald Good

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

William Blake

"Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want."

"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

"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The private and personal blessings we enjoy, the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity, deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life."

Jeremy Taylor

"Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us."

David Whyte

"I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it."

"The wise will remember, throughout their many lives, the love of those who wiped away their sorrow."

Thiruvalluvar

"Even a deep injury is forgotten at the thought of one past kindness from the same person."

Thiruvalluvar

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself."

Paramahansa Yogananda

"Little friends may prove great friends."

Aesop