Explore Quotes on Gratitude

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.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.