Top gratitude Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of gratitude quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Justina Chen
What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?
- Justina Chen
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Image of Lorenzo Snow
If a person wants to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord...always cultivate a spirit of gratitude. It is the duty of every Latter-day Saint to cultivate a spirit of gratitude.
- Lorenzo Snow
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Image of Georg Simmel
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although it may remain, of course, something purely internal, it may yet engender new actions. It is an ideal bridge which the soul comes across again and again, so to speak, and which, upon provocations too slight to throw a new bridge to the other person, it uses to come closer to him.
- Georg Simmel
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Image of Ann Voskamp
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
- Ann Voskamp
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
- Ann Voskamp
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Image of Aberjhani
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
- Aberjhani
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Image of David Whyte
Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
- David Whyte
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Image of Pope John Paul II
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
- Pope John Paul II
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Image of Josef Pieper
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
- Josef Pieper
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Image of Kathi Appelt
Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.
- Kathi Appelt
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Image of Neale Donald Walsch
The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch
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Image of Masaru Emoto
'Love and gratitude' are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.
- Masaru Emoto
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Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension
- Masaru Emoto
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Image of Mary Jo Putney
But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
- Mary Jo Putney
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Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Image of Elif Safak
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
- Elif Safak
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Image of Richard Whately
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.
- Richard Whately
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Image of Katrina Kenison
Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?
- Katrina Kenison
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Image of David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Image of David Steindl-Rast
There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.
- David Steindl-Rast
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The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Image of David Steindl-Rast
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.
- David Steindl-Rast
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Image of Izaak Walton
[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.
- Izaak Walton
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Image of Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Image of Thornton Wilder
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
- Thornton Wilder
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Image of Susan Wittig Albert
I am often surprised when I think to count my graces, for the more I count, the more there seem to be. And if pride in my accomplishments is the emotion that I naturally feel when I focus on my gifts, gratitude is the emotion I feel as I become aware of the many graces that have shaped me and my gifts.
- Susan Wittig Albert
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Gratitude is the richest, most joyful feeling humans are privileged to experience.
- Susan Wittig Albert
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Image of Jill Bolte Taylor
The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.
- Jill Bolte Taylor
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Image of Paul Tillich
The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.
- Paul Tillich
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Image of John Robbins
Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
- John Robbins
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Image of Irving Berlin
When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.
- Irving Berlin
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Image of Elizabeth Berg
But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
- Elizabeth Berg
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Image of Saul Bellow
I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.
- Saul Bellow
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Image of Koren Zailckas
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.
- Koren Zailckas
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Image of Aimee Bender
To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
- Aimee Bender
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Image of Martin Sheen
No matter what is going on, everything is grace.
- Martin Sheen
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Image of Robert Quillen
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
- Robert Quillen
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Image of James K. Polk
The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.
- James K. Polk
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Image of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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Image of Chris Brown
Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.
- Chris Brown
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Image of Dennis Prager
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
- Dennis Prager
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Image of Cate Tiernan
I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in.
- Cate Tiernan
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Image of Evelyn Underhill
Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.
- Evelyn Underhill
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Image of Tony Hoagland
We would give anything for what we have.
- Tony Hoagland
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Image of Sandra Day O'Connor
I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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Image of Plutarch
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
- Plutarch
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Image of Jules Renard
If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
- Jules Renard
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Image of Alexander Shulgin
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.
- Alexander Shulgin
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Image of Andrew Peterson
Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and this newest chapter, BiRDS OF RELOCATiON, is Eric's testimony that along the way there are moments of deep joy and gratitude-they may seem brief, but they're bright, and they're worth singing about. The joy I hear on this record heralds a long and welcome peace.
- Andrew Peterson
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