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Gratitude Quotes and Sayings

Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.
Ovid

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appear.
Anthony Robbins

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
Author Unknown

Gratitude is the best attitude.
Author Unknown

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
Will Carleton

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

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

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.
Adabella Radici

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern

Gratitude – the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
Dorothy Parker

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
John Dryden

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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
Thomas Fuller

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld

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

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G.K. Chesterton

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian Proverb

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
John Dryden

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
George Canning

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

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
Verbena Woods

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Fran�ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
John Henry Jowett

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Chinese Proverb

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

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.
Jackie Windspear

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
George Colman

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

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

Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to e.
Buddha

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
H.U. Westermayer

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time
when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell

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

What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
Bertolt Brecht

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