Gratitude Quotes
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I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
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Now in your inner mind, tell yourself, 'Every time I begin to worry, I will immediately think of something to be grateful for.' Repeat this enough times until you feel that your inner mind will automatically go into gratitude mode as soon as it's aware that it's in worry mode.
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
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Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us and all of us together.
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I'm doing now.
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My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
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Like beautiful homes, cute babies, or noble careers helping others, books can make us feel like we mean something positive, and in gratitude, we truly love them.
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I want to give back and show my gratitude to the indies. At the same time, cherish the mainstream projects I've been getting.
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Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.
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I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.
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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
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I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
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I still have so much gratitude for being part of something so great that is still around 20 years later, played in school and still getting the recognition that it gets. It is shocking, but then like I said, it's timeless so it isn't.
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Experience G.R.A.T.I.T.U.D.E. at a deeper level... Give it... Receive it... Affirm it... Think it... Inspire it in others... Talk about it... Understand it... Dream it... Experience it in everything you do.
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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When a person looks through a colored lens, everything seems to be that color. If the lens is tinted yellow or blue, everything seems yellow or blue. A person who looks at life through the lens of gratitude will always find things to be grateful for.
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Even to survive and have everyone in good health now is really precious. Bands half our age don't even get that lucky sometimes. It's good to practice gratitude, as they say. I used to be so ungracious, I wasn't even aware that I should be feeling grateful! Now I actually try and put it into my daily thought: Be grateful. It's not always so easy.
