Gratitude Quotes

"This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland."

- John Doolittle

"Veterans Day is an acknowledgement that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for or country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day."

- Elizabeth Esty

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever."

- Psalms 107:1

"If you’re worried and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep. Then you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings."

- White Christmas

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

- The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Esther Day is a reminder that we should all make an effort to appreciate the people we love while we have them."

- John Green

"If tears could build a stairway,and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again."

- Author Unknown

"One more day One more time One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied But then again I know what it would do Leave me wishing still for one more day with you."

- Diamond Rio

"When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart."

- Korean Proverb

"Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;"

- Shakespeare

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better'. They're wrong. When the people you love are gone, you're alone. I miss being a part of their lives and them being part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if they were here – what we might have done together. I miss all the great things that will never be."

- Keanu Reeves

"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world."

- Doug Ebbert

"Giving thanks is the very life of prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding."

- Alice Walker

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

- Alan Cohen

"In the New Year, never forget to thank your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Giving thanks for the little things draw bigger, better, and extra things your way."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot."

- Hansa Proverb

"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."

- W. Clement Stone

"A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude."

- Bruce Wilkinson

"He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart."

- J.A. Shedd

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated [this ground], far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

"Veterans know better than anyone else the price of freedom, for they’ve suffered the scars of war. We can offer them no better tribute than to protect what they have won for us."

"My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you."

"Enjoy the Little Things"

"We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all."