100 Inspirational Grateful Heart Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts great things."

- Plato

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

- James Allen

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

- Charles Dickens

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter the words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity."

- Melody Beattie

"Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for."

- Zig Ziglar

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see."

- Robert Holden

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

- Randy Pausch

"The more you practice gratitude, the more you see how much there is to be grateful for."

- Seneca

"Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you."

- Brian Tracy

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything."

- Alan Cohen

"Nothing new can come into your life unless you are grateful for what you already have."

- Michael Bernhard

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues."

- Cicero

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"We can choose to be grateful no matter what."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."

- Alfred Painter

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

- Steve Maraboli

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us; much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

- Anthony Robbins

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

- Melody Beattie

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"Every morning brings new potential, but only if you make the most of it with gratitude."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I thank thee for the morning light, for rest and shelter of the night."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful."

- Buddha

"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you."

- Eileen Caddy

"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes."

- Sri Chinmoy

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

- David Steindl-Rast

"I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"I looked around and thought about my life. I felt grateful. I noticed every detail. That is the key to time travel. You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy."

- Sara Avant Stover

"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes."

- Sri Chinmoy

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

- Bruce Wilkinson

"Being grateful in our circumstances is an act of faith in God. It requires that we trust God and hope for things we may not see but which are true. By being grateful, we follow the example of our beloved Savior, who said, 'Not my will, but thine, be done.'"

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Joy and happiness are born of gratitude."

- Gordon T. Watts

"When gratitude becomes your default setting, life changes."

- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

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

- Amy Collette

"There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude."

- Robert Brault

"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

- Willie Nelson

"There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy."

- Ralph H. Blum

"Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented."

- Sonja Lyubomirsky

"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

"Gratitude is a catalyst to all Christlike attributes! A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."

- Albert Schweitzer

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective."

- Germany Kent

"Gratitude is not in the words but in the heart which expresses it."

- Luffina Lourduraj

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- Gilbert C. Chesterton

"There is something to appreciate in every moment of every day. Strive to find it as often as you can. Living with gratitude will change your life."

- Anthon St. Maarten

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Abundance is not the result of unlimited opportunities or resources. It is manifested by limitless thinking, a courageous spirit, and a grateful, receptive heart."

- Anthon St. Maarten

"Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things."

- Rhonda Byrne

"It doesn’t cost you anything to be grateful, but it could give you everything."

- Ellie Shoja

"Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- William Shakespeare

"Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are."

- Mandy Ingber

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

- Henry van Dyke

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry."

- Antonia Montoya

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'"

- William Arthur Ward

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

- G.B. Stern

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."

- C.S. Lewis

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."

- Cicero

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

- Neal A. Maxwell

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

"When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful."

- Roy Bennett

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

- Kin Hubbard

"Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation."

- John Ortberg

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

- Maya Angelou

"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying ‘thank you,’ forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."

- Brené Brown

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

- Thornton Wilder

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one more thing-a grateful heart."

- George Herbert

"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living."

- Chief Tecumseh

"Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see."

- Mary Davis

"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices."

- Robert Braathe

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

- Charles Schwab

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

- G.K. Chesterton

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

- Seneca

"When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere."

- Emmanuel Dagher

"When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."

- Kristin Armstrong

"The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal."

- C. S. Lewis

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

- James E. Faust

"Being thankful is not always experienced as a natural state of existence, we must work at it, akin to a type of strength training for the heart."

- Larissa Gomez

"Gratitude is the rich soil you plant your future in."

- Lisa Nichols

"Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of focusing on all the bad, be thankful for all the good."

- Germany Kent

"The greatest things are freely giving; life, love, joy, smiles, hugs, inner peace, blessings, family, friends, nature….!"

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Stepping into this new day is giving me life, like thank you God for strength. I am proud of the woman I have become."

- Germany Kent

"We deserve all the blessings of the Lord with a grateful heart, there is a great contentment."

- Jennifer Aquillo

"Today, my attitude will be filled with gratitude for the many blessings in my life."

- Germany Kent

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

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Be grateful for the one thing that is perfectly working, out of the million that keeps breaking your heart."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

- William Blake

"Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing."

- Donna Hedges

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, ‘Thank you.’"

- Francis Lucille

"Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Even in the trials of life, if we have eyes to see them, we can find good things everywhere we look."

- Joanna Gaines

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine and spiritual and emotional nourishment."

- Steve Maraboli

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

- Lionel Hampton

"There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude."

- Jean de La Bruyère

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

- Charles Dickens

"No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

- Cynthia Ozick

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

- Jacques Maritain

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

- Aesop

"Opening your eyes to more of the world around you can deeply enhance your gratitude practice."

- Derrick Carpenter

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

- William James

"Give us grateful hearts… in this morning light."

- Mary Mapes Dodge

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today."

- Ojibwe Saying

"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree."

- Vietnamese Proverb

"GRATITUDE unfolds into ENOUGH"

- AshRawArt

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

- Camille Pissarro

"The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

- Alfred North Whitehead

"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."

- Lauryn Hill

"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style."

- Rebecca Solnit

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"You never know where a blessing can come from."

- Teena Marie

"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."

- Samuel Butler

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."

- Jessica Lange

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

- William Shakespeare

"Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off."

- Denis Diderot

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness."

- Anonymous

"As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

"Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude."

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us; and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds."

"Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible."

- Anonymous