Gratitude Quotes

• I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Parents
  • Gratitude
  • Grandparents

• Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.

  

  Peter Marshall
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.

  

  Franz Wright
  • God
  • Experience
  • Gratitude

• Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

  

  Elizabeth Ferrars
  • Gratitude
  • Dangerous
  • Terrible

• Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Attitude
  • Everyday
  • Wealth

• All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

  

  Jim Ramstad
  • People
  • World
  • War

• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

  

  Charles James
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Attachment

• The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Women
  • Support
  • Focus

• [The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Gratitude
  • Neglected

• The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Experience
  • Ugly
  • Humility

• Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Gratitude
  • Acknowledging
  • Lord's Hand

• Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Words
  • Joy
  • Prince

• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Gratitude

• Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

  

  William Romaine
  • God
  • Blessing
  • Heavens

• Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Time
  • God
  • Small

• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Soul
  • Spring
  • Blossom

• Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Gratitude

• Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Power
  • Lost
  • Gratitude

• This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.

  

  Dave Obey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

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