Quotes on Great Gratitude

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but 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!

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.

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