Gratitude Quotes

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."

- Northrup Christiane

"One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul."

- Amy Collette

"The best way to show my gratitude is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."

- Mother Teresa

"Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent."

- Dennis Prager

"When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude."

- Elie Wiesel

"Rest and be thankful."

- William Wordsworth

"Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are."

- Bethany Hamilton

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say."

- Alice Walker

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

- Fred Rogers

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!"

- Mae West

"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks."

- William Shakespeare

"Thank you for being a friend."

- Andrew Gold

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing."

- John Bytheway

"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."

- Randy Pausch

"The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time."

- Douglas Wood

"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."

- Ralph Marston

"Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation."

- Tony Robbins

"The greatest award is the appreciation of the people."

- Gopi Sundar

"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things, and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"It's not what you say about people, but how you show them that counts."

- Red Auerbach

"Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you."

- Christine E. Szymanski

"Having the ability to recognize and appreciate your blessing during difficult times in life is a blessing."

- Angel Moreira

"Appreciation is true wealth."

- Jaja Requa

"I appreciate all that life has to offer me, both the good and the bad."

"Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation is a gift."