116 Inspirational Quotes on Gratitude to Transform Your Mindset

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

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

- Amy Collette

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself."

- Tecumseh

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

- Marcel Proust

"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

"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."

- Maya Angelou

"Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessing we possess."

- Max Lucado

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

- Mary Davis

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

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

- Rumi

"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

"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

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"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

"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 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

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

- Ralph H. Blum

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

- David Steindl-Rast

"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

"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

"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

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Gerald Good

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

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

- Cynthia Ozick

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

- Gilbert C. Chesterton

"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

"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

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"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

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

- Meister Eckhart

"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

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."

- Brené Brown

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

- Kristin Armstrong

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

- John Milton

"Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality."

- Jen Sincero

"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

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

- Voltaire

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

- Epictetus

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude."

- A.A. Milne

"No duty is more urgent than giving thanks."

- James Allen

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

- Robert Brault

"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

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

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

- Lionel Hampton

"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

"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

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

- Thornton Wilder

"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."

- Brené Brown

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Cicero

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Rhonda Byrne

"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

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

- Seneca

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Alfred Painter

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"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

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

- Lauryn Hill

"Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"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

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

- Fred de Witt van Amburgh

"It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment."

- Naomi Williams

"Forget yesterday–it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow–you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift–today."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Neal A. Maxwell

"Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it."

- Stephen Richards

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

- Robert Braathe

"This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before."

- Maya Angelou

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

- Jacques Maritain

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- William Faulkner

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

- William James

"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

"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

"Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning."

- GZA

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

- Robert Quillen

"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it."

- Michael Josephson

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

- Charles Schwab

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

- John E. Southard

"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day–or to celebrate each special day."

- Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- John Wooden

"Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else."

- Raheel Farooq

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."

- Jeff Miller

"Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it."

- Tom Hopkins

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"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."

"Always have an attitude of gratitude."