Quotes about Gratitude

• God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "thank you?" 
• The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. 
• If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
• There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
• Gratitude is the memory of the heart. 
• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.  Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
• The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
• Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
• If you have lived, take thankfully the past. 
• As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily.  The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.
• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. 
• 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.
• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. 
• 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!
• Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It's a way to live.
• Praise the bridge that carried you over.
• If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. 
• He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
• What a miserable thing life is:  you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
• Gratitude is the best attitude.
• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
• We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
• Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. 
• If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.  It will change your life mightily.
• Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
• There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.  It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. 
• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. 
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
• Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. 
• All that we behold is full of blessings.
• Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? 
• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
• The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts. 
• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. 
• When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.
• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
• Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.