50 Inspirational Quotes About Thankfulness to Brighten Your Day

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

- Cicero

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

- Bethany Hamilton

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

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

- Kristin Armstrong

"Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy."

- Jefferson Bethke

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

- 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

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."

- Melody Beattie

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

- Meister Eckhart

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."

- Maya Angelou

"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 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

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark."

- Helen Keller

"'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

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

- Marcel Proust

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

- Tecumseh

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

- John Ortberg

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

- Melody Beattie

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

- Voltaire

"Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Robert Brault

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

- James Allen

"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."

- Frank A. Clark

"A little ‘thank you’ that you will say to someone for a ‘little favour’ shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen ‘greater favours’. Learn to say ‘thank you’ and why not?"

- Israelmore Ayivor

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

"For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

- Charlotte Brontë

"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."

- Elie Wiesel

"O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."

- William Shakespeare

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."

- Gerald Good

"Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone."

- Stephen King

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- John F. Kennedy

"When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow."

- Shauna Niequist

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Robert Braathe

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy, and I am loved."

- Reba McEntire

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

- Mary Davis

"The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become."

- Robert Holden

"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves and spend without fear of bankruptcy."

- Fred de Witt van Amburgh

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

- Rumi

"Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace."

- Todd Stocker

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

- Marcel Proust

"Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone."

- Gertrude Stein

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

- Amy Collette

"Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world."

- John Milton

"It is better to dwell on the beautiful things in life than the negative."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."

- Brené Brown

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

- Plato

"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

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

- Thornton Wilder

"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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Lauryn Hill

"For the yesterdays and today’s, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for – Thank you."

- Cecelia Ahern

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Rest and be thankful."

- William Wordsworth

"I am what I am, I’m doing very well in my life, and I’m thankful to God for that."

- LL Cool J

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."

- Henry Clay

"You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ojibwe Saying

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

"A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."

"It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart."

"Gratitude is the open door to abundance."

"I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength."