Gratitude Quotes

1. In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

David Steindl-Rast

2. You can't be unhappy and grateful at the same time.

Unknown

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

Marcel Proust

4. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Melody Beattie

6. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

7. The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Shakti Gawain

8. If you have lived, take thankfully the past.

John Dryden

9. 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

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

Epictetus

11. Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

12. The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

Zig Ziglar

13. Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

14. Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.

Tom Giaquinto

15. I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

Miguel Ruiz

16. Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Jean Baptiste Massieu

17. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?

Richard Dawkins

18. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

Theodore N. Vail

19. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

20. 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

21. Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

Sam Harris

22. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Anonymous

23. No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an unchartered land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

24. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

David Steindl-Rast

25. You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

26. Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

27. 28. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

Dan Buettner

29. Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Sigmund Freud

30. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

31. Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.

Yasmin Mogahed

32. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Nelson Mandela

33. True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Richard Rohr

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

Chinese Proverb

35. They do not love, that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare

36. If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

Dr. Gregory House

37. Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

38. When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

Eckhart Tolle

39. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mohandas Gandhi

40. When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.

Stephen Richards

41. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

42. The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Deepak Chopra

43. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

44. 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

45. A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.

Zadok Rabinwitz

46. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

47. It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.

George Matthew Adams

48. Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Dennis Prager

49. Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else.

Dalai Lama

50. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

51. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Voltaire

52. Everyone has something to be grateful for; even the man who can't pay his debts can be thankful he isn't one of his creditors.

Unknown

53. To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Eckhart Tolle

54. Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

55. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

56. Genious is only a superior power of seeing.

John Ruskin

57. When I'm anxious it's because I'm living in the future. When I'm depressed it's because I'm living in the past.

Unknown

58. 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

59. Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Thornton Wilder

61. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht

62. You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

63. Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

64. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Kahlil Gibran

65. Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras

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

Alfred Painter

67. Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

68. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

69. Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Leroy [Satchel] Paige

70. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

71. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

72. Happiness is in itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

73. Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there's always something we could be grateful for.

Barry Neil Kaufman

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

Meister Eckhart

75. When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Dalai Lama

76. Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Friedrich Nietzsche

77. Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Unknown

78. 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

79. Every day find something to be grateful for.

Victoria Osteen

80. Everyone smiles in the same language.

George Carlin

81. The root of joy is gratefulness.

David Steindl-Rast

82. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

83. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

84. Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

85. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

86. Be in a constant state of gratefulness and see what happens!

Mimi Luk

87. If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

88. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

89. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

Margaret Mitchell

90. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Charles Dickens

92. So I cannot tell you anything that, in a few minutes, will tell you how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful.

Ben Stein

93. Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Randy Pausch

94. To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

95. Sometimes we're so busy chasing that we forget to notice the things we already have, the people in our lives and the fortunate circumstances in which we live.

A Beautiful Mind with Headspace.com

96. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

97. Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

J. Robert Moskin

98. Being grateful sounded like a nice replacement for resentment, indignation and pique.

Janice Kaplan

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

Ralph H. Blum

100. So many conditions of happiness are available; more than enough for you to be happy right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

101. People who approach life with a sense of gratitude are constantly aware of what’s wonderful in their life. Because they enjoy the fruits of their successes, they seek out more success. And when things don’t go as planned, people who are grateful can put failure into perspective.

Geoffery James

102. A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.

Norman Foster

103. To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Stanley Hauerwas

104. Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Dennis Prager

105. 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

106. Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.

Sanaya Roman

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

Alfred North Whitehead

108. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.

David Alan Basche

109. If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

110. So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Katherine Heigl

111. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

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

Kristin Armstrong

113. Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

114. Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

Tony Robbins

115. When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

Kristin Armstrong

116. One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

Hafiz of Persia

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

Robert Brault

118. When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Elie Wiesel

119. I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

Kurt Sutter

120. You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.

The Buddha

121. May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

122. Gratitude opens the door to the power, the creativity.

Deepak Chopra

123. The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Gary Zukav

124. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

Stephen Hawking

125. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Henri Nouwen

126. When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.

Bernie Siegel

127. I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

Jennifer Lopez

128. Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

Abigail Spencer

129. A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

Harvey Mackay

130. Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Chip Conley

131. Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today.

Abraham–Hicks

132. Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

134. A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

135. Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.

Grace Gealey

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

Felix Frankfurter

137. Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

Loretta Young

138. In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

139. It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Roberto Benigni

140. I'm just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I'm so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that's appealing to me.

PewDiePie

141. Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C.S. Lewis

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

Anthony Robbins

143. At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.

David Rakoff

144. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Baltasar Gracian

145. Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

James Ransone

146. I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Maurice Druon

147. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Woody Allen

148. We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Radhanath Swami

149. It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

Srikumar Rao

150. Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marianne Williamson

151. A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

152. Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

Rachel Cusk

153. Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Charles Lamb

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

Steve Maraboli

155. What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

Deborah Norville

156. Live each day with thankful gratitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

157. When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Eckhart Tolle

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

Lionel Hampton

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

G.K. Chesterton

161. When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously.

Debbie Ford

162. Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Philip Stanhope

163. I may not be the number one movie star, or my films might not be doing too good. I am grateful for what life has offered me. I have got a great family, parents are together, have a great sister, I get to holiday. All these things make me grateful towards life, for everything. I always say - have an attitude of gratitude.

Sonam Kapoor

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Henry Ward Beecher

166. 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

167. Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Sophocles

168. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

169. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop

170. Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Nick Vujicic

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

172. 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

173. 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. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/gratitude.html#gMLxeKL4qVUS66Fs.99

Melody Beattie

174. 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

175. Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.

Kristin Armstrong

176. 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

177. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.

Silvia Hartmann

178. I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Giacomo Casanova

179. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

180. When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

Pat Summerall

181. 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

182. A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Eckhart Tolle

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

Alphonse Karr

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

186. 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

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

William Arthur Ward

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

Charles Dickens

189. Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to take a step beyond that.

Terri Guillemets

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

Felix Frankfurter

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

Charles Schwab

192. The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Simon Mainwaring

193. 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

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

Naomi Williams

195. 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

196. I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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

Robert Braathe

198. Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.

J. Robert Moskin

199. 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

200. 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

201. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel

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

Willie Nelson

203. It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana

204. In the midst of happiness, one may not appreciate what happiness is.

Chinese proverb

205. 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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

207. When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

208. Gratitude among Friends, is like Credit among Tradesmen, it keeps Business up, and maintains the Correspondence. And we frequently pay not so much out of a Principle that we ought to discharge our Debts, as to secure our selves a Place to be trusted in another Time.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

209. I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

Bonnie Raitt

210. Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.

Shakti Gawai

211. You never really appreciate a thing until you have to give it up.

John Rhodes Sturdy

212. Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Marquis de Sade

213. You think this is just another day in your life? It's not just another day. It's the one day that is given to you today. It's given to you. It's a gift. It's the only gift that you have right now, and the only appropriate response is gratefulness.

David Steindl-Rast

214. Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

215. Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Charles Spurgeon

216. Objects are concealed from our view, not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because we do not bring our minds and eyes to bear on them…but there is only as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,—not a grain more.

Henry David Thoreau

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

G.K. Chesterton

218. The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

219. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

220. 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.

Harold S. Kushner

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

222. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Aldous Huxley

223. Gratitude bestows many benefits. It dissolves negative feelings: anger and jealousy melt in its embrace, fear and defensiveness shrink. Gratitude deflates the barriers to love.

Roger Walsh

224. I once cried because I had no shoes to play football with my friends, but one day i saw a man who had no feet, and I realized how rich I am.

Zinedine Zidane

225. Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Ovid

226. Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.

Marietta McCarty

227. 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.

Alan Cohen

228. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for.

H. L. Mencken

229. Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

230. We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Iyanla Vanzant

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

Albert Schweitzer

232. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

233. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston S. Churchill

234. Saying “thank you” creates love.

Daphne Rose Kingma

235. By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

Jack Canfield

236. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Hugh Jackman

237. Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

238. We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special.

Pablo

239. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Dalai Lama

240. Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

Gia Coppola

241. A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

Steve Maraboli

242. Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

Annie Gottlieb

243. When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Shania Twain

244. Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day

245. Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don't empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.

Paul Bloom

246. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

247. If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Brad Sherman

248. Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Scott Westerfeld

249. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

250. Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

251. But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Richard Dawkins

252. Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Richelle E. Goodrich

253. A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.

Israelmore Ayivor

254. 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

255. Here is little habit that can make a big difference. Send sunbeams. Intentionally send a word of encouragement or appreciation every day to one person.

Steve Goodier

256. There is nothing more powerful than truth. It is undeniable and should always be appreciated. The truth gives you unlimited freedom to be who you are and express how you feel. The truth offers you peace of mind which is something we all love.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

257. The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Paulo Coelho

258. Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

259. You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore.

Glenn Beck

260. We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

261. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

262. Rest and be thankful.

William Wordsworth

263. 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

264. Sometimes we focus so much on what we don't have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!

Jeff Dixon

265. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

267. Gratitude should not be just a reaction to getting what you want, but an all-time gratitude, the kind where you notice the little things and where you constantly look for the good, even in unpleasant situations.

Marelisa Fabrega

268. It is always now.

Sam Harris

269. When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

Martha Beck

270. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

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

William James

272. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

273. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

274. I once cried because I had no shoes to play football with my friends, but one day i saw a man who had no feet, and I realized how rich I am.

Zinedine Zidane

275. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Ellen Goodman

276. When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Bernard Berenson

277. Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

Marc Estrin

278. Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Kenneth R. Miller

279. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

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

Voltaire

281. No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

Deepak Chopra

282. There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Seneca

283. 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

284. Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Terri Guillemets

285. 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

286. Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

287. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

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

Cynthia Ozick

289. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

290. What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

Oprah Winfrey

291. 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

292. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

293. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Henry Ward Beecher

295. Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.

Ellen Hopkins

296. Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Jack Canfield

297. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed... Be thankful!

Elif Shafak

298. Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.

Confucius

299. I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

Kristin Armstrong

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

Todd Stocker

301. Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had.

Waleed Basyouni

302. I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be.

Habeeb Akande

303. If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

Chad Sugg

304. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

William Arthur Ward

306. This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

Maya Angelou

307. We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

308. The key to wisdom and the flow in life is learning to accept emotions as they come, respect them and act on them appropriately. Just as road signs give information and direction, so do emotions. Be grateful for emotions.

Art of Appreciation Adventure, Gratitude Habitat

309. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

310. The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

Neale Donald Walsch

311. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

312. To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Henry B. Eyring

313. You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

Sarah Ban Breathnack

314. There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

R.H. Blyth

315. Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

316. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

317. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

318. I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrievably imprisoned by the crazed twins of acquisition and possession, and my soul would exist as a forever slave to greed.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

319. I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

Lea Thompson

320. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Randy Pausch

322. 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

323. If the world is made up of atoms, and everything we have is made out of atoms, why aren't we more grateful for them?

Sneha Abraham

324. 325. Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

Jefferson Bethke

326. Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Angie Karan

327. There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

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

Robert Brault

329. Any mind that lacks the spirit of gratitude knows nothing about the feeling of happiness.

Edmond Mbiaka

330. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

331. Be happy and enjoy your sacred time on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

332. Gratitude is a divine shift in your perspective from one of separation and lack to one of unity and right mindedness. It is a choice not made from guilt but rather from a higher level of consciousness.

Janet Rebhan

333. Cultivating an attitude of gratitude begins with counting your blessings. In simpler terms, gratitude is expressing thanks for gifts we receive. Genuine gratitude helps us to see the little things in life that are often overlooked, yet so precious.

Dana Arcuri

334. Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Joyce Brothers

335. Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

Yuval Levin

336. Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

338. I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

James E. Faust

339. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

340. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

341. This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan W. Watts

342. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

343. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

344. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway

345. When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

Simon Mainwaring

346. A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Madeleine L'Engle

347. A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

348. The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

349. You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan W. Watts

350. Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sallust

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

Aldous Huxley

352. We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Elizabeth Gilbert

353. What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Brené Brown

354. It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Hermann Hesse

355. What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

356. Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

357. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

358. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

359. The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Philip K. Dick

360. You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

Alan W. Watts

361. Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

Amit Ray

362. Without having experienced the cold of winter, one cannot appreciate the warmth of spring.

Chinese Proverb

363. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.