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Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes and aphorisms on gratitude, a collection of ideas to recognize emotions to express appreciation for what is important for living together gratefully.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every year, September 21 is World Gratitude Day, a day of thanks the whole world celebrates together. World Gratitude Day recognizes the power of gratitude to heal, energize, and transform lives for the better. The celebration of Gratitude Day allows both individual citizens and organisations within wider society to celebrate the broad meaning of gratitude in a variety of ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.<\/span>
\nDecimus Magnus Ausonius<\/span><\/p>\n

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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.<\/span>
\nMelody Beattie<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself… not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past<\/span>
\nFaith Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. <\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.<\/span>
\nFrancis Beaumont<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. <\/span>
\nJacques Maritain<\/span><\/p>\n

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years – a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.<\/span>
\nStephen Vincent Benet<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. <\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.<\/span>
\nWilliam John Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart — a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water — I accept with joy.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.<\/span>
\nRalph H. Blum<\/span><\/p>\n

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.<\/span>
\nSarah Knowles Bolton<\/span><\/p>\n

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful self, it’s no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ‘Joy is not in things; it is in us.’<\/span>
\nJoan Borysenko<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. <\/span>
\nLionel Hampton<\/span><\/p>\n

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray “with all perseverance.” We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.<\/span>
\nE.M. Bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.<\/span>
\nE.M. Bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful. <\/span>
\nRoy Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nElie Wiesel<\/span><\/p>\n

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.<\/span>
\nE.M. Bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. <\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens – this is hard work, but it is God’s work, and man’s best labor.<\/span>
\nE.M. Bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. <\/span>
\nJohn Ortberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is available for each of us every day — our spiritual daily bread — but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the “good life” we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.<\/span>
\nMerry Browne<\/span><\/p>\n

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude to benefactors is a well-recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, however imperfectly, is a duty to ourselves as well as to those who have helped us.<\/span>
\nFrederick Douglass<\/span><\/p>\n

What if, today, we were grateful for everything.<\/span>
\nCharlie Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life. <\/span>
\nRumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.<\/span>
\nEileen Caddy<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Carter<\/span><\/p>\n

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.<\/span>
\nGalius Valerius Catullus<\/span><\/p>\n

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows it should never remember it.<\/span>
\nPierre Cbarron<\/span><\/p>\n

Non-cooks think it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.<\/span>
\nJulia Child<\/span><\/p>\n

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.<\/span>
\nNorthrup Christiane<\/span><\/p>\n

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. <\/span>
\nAlfred North Whitehead<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.<\/span>
\nMarcus T. Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nDietrich Bonhoeffer<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nFrank A. Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

All good things of this world are no further good than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy only as much as we can make useful to ourselves and others, and no more.<\/span>
\nDaniel Defoe<\/span><\/p>\n

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.<\/span>
\nDemosthenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.<\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

Glee! The great storm is over!<\/span>
\nEmily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude.<\/span>
\nJean de La Bruy\u00e8re<\/span><\/p>\n

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a lifelong pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.<\/span>
\nWayne Dyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a twofold love — love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.<\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. <\/span>
\nCicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.<\/span>
\nBob Dylan<\/span><\/p>\n

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you,” that would suffice.<\/span>
\nMeister Eckhart<\/span><\/p>\n

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Sufficiency’s enough for men of sense.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. <\/span>
\nDeepak Chopra<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.<\/span>
\nFelix Frankfurter<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.<\/span>
\nThomas Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

Express gratitude for the greatness of small things. <\/span>
\nRichie Norton<\/span><\/p>\n

The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.<\/span>
\nNorman Vincent Peale<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. <\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.<\/span>
\nJohannes A. Gaertner<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It\u2019s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul. <\/span>
\nAmy Collette<\/span><\/p>\n

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.<\/span>
\nEdward Gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.<\/span>
\nSamuel Goldwyn<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.<\/span>
\nSamuel Goldwyn<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. <\/span>
\nW. Clement Stone<\/span><\/p>\n

Every dog has its day, but it’s not every dog that knows when he’s having it.<\/span>
\nWinifred Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.<\/span>
\nBaltasar Gracian<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity \u2026 it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. <\/span>
\nMelody Beattie<\/span><\/p>\n

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.<\/span>
\nClarence E. Hodges<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.<\/span>
\nDavid Grayson<\/span><\/p>\n

After my mother’s death, I began to see her as she had really been…. It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.<\/span>
\nNancy Hale<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.<\/span>
\nEdward F. Halifax<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord’s answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.<\/span>
\n0. Hallesby<\/span><\/p>\n

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. <\/span>
\nMaria Shriver<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. <\/span>
\nCharles Spurgeon<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. <\/span>
\nMarcel Proust<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, “I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me.” Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.<\/span>
\n0. Hallesby<\/span><\/p>\n

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. <\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Thank you\u2019 is the best prayer that anyone could say. <\/span>
\nAlice Walker<\/span><\/p>\n

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. <\/span>
\nEckhart Tolle<\/span><\/p>\n

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. <\/span>
\nJohn F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and forever more. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.<\/span>
\n0. Hallesby<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 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. <\/span>
\nGermany Kent<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.<\/span>
\nMelody Beattie<\/span><\/p>\n

How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.<\/span>
\nJulius Charles Hare<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nOprah Winfrey<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. <\/span>
\nLionel Hampton<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things. <\/span>
\nRhonda Byrne<\/span><\/p>\n

The public have neither shame or gratitude.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry. <\/span>
\nAntonia Montoya<\/span><\/p>\n

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.<\/span>
\nLillian Hellman<\/span><\/p>\n

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.<\/span>
\nGeorge R. Hendrick<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.<\/span>
\nGeorge Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

Who covets more is evermore a slave.<\/span>
\nRobert Herrick<\/span><\/p>\n

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.<\/span>
\nRandy Pausch<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough is as good as a feast.<\/span>
\nJohn Heywood<\/span><\/p>\n

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.<\/span>
\nHomer<\/span><\/p>\n

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.<\/span>
\nHorace<\/span><\/p>\n

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.<\/span>
\nBobby Hull<\/span><\/p>\n

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.<\/span>
\nWilliam Jenkyn<\/span><\/p>\n

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing…. It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.<\/span>
\nSarah Orne Jewett<\/span><\/p>\n

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.<\/span>
\nRose F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive… I still find it staggering that I am here at all.<\/span>
\nChristopher Leach<\/span><\/p>\n

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

The gratitude of most men is nothing more than a secret desire of receiving even greater benefits.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a certain kind of lively gratitude that not only releases us fro benefits we received, but also becomes a return payment to our friend that makes them become indebted to us.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. <\/span>
\nMelody Beattie<\/span><\/p>\n

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.<\/span>
\nAnne Lamott<\/span><\/p>\n

Man needs so little… yet he begins wanting so much.<\/span>
\nLouis L’Amour<\/span><\/p>\n

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.<\/span>
\nWalter Savage Landor<\/span><\/p>\n

Too much is unwholesome.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.<\/span>
\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. <\/span>
\nCharlotte Bront\u00eb<\/span><\/p>\n

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.<\/span>
\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/span><\/p>\n

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.<\/span>
\nHerbert Lockyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.<\/span>
\nJames Russell Lowell<\/span><\/p>\n

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.<\/span>
\nLucretius<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.<\/span>
\nJacques Maritain<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me burn out for God… prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!<\/span>
\nHenry Martyn<\/span><\/p>\n

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.<\/span>
\nMignon McLaughlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.<\/span>
\nAgnes Meyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.<\/span>
\nCourtland Milloy<\/span><\/p>\n

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.<\/span>
\nLucy Maud Montgomery<\/span><\/p>\n

I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.<\/span>
\nGrandma Moses<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.<\/span>
\nAndrew Murray<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing will content him who is not content with a little.<\/span>
\nGreek Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift gratitude is the sweetest.<\/span>
\nGreek Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflect that life like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. <\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift gratitude is the sweetest.<\/span>
\nGreek Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

When you consider everything we have is a gift from God, it’s amazing how little gratitude we show. Giving to others is such a small way to say thank you.<\/span>
\nCharles L. Overby<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude – the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.<\/span>
\nDorothy Parker<\/span><\/p>\n

The good Lord has been good to me, and I am trying to return the favor. I just want to do as much good in the world as I can.<\/span>
\nMilton Petrie<\/span><\/p>\n

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.<\/span>
\nWilliam S. Plumer<\/span><\/p>\n

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.<\/span>
\nAlexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

Half a loaf is better than none.<\/span>
\nAustralian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A hungry ass keeps her kicking end down.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Get down on your knees and thank God you’re still on your feet.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Better a mouse in the pot than no stew at all.<\/span>
\nItalian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I might have lost my ring, but I still have my fingers!<\/span>
\nItalian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.<\/span>
\nC.F. Ramuz<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.<\/span>
\nMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings<\/span><\/p>\n

Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.<\/span>
\nEdwin Arlington Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n

As I study wealthy men, I can see but one way in which they can secure a real equivalent for money spent, and that is to cultivate a taste for giving where the money may produce an effect, which will be a lasting gratification.<\/span>
\nJohn D. Rockefeller<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.<\/span>
\nJ.C. Ryle<\/span><\/p>\n

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.<\/span>
\nMarcus Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.<\/span>
\nMarcus Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.<\/span>
\nMarcus Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.<\/span>
\nMarcus Annaeus Seneca<\/span><\/p>\n

He receives comfort like cold porridge.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are. <\/span>
\nMandy Ingber<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate ingratitude more in a person than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

We can no other answer make but thinks, and thanks and ever thanks.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shenstone<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Father, let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.<\/span>
\nW.B. Slack<\/span><\/p>\n

One never hugs one’s good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.<\/span>
\nAlexander Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

How many things there are which I do not want.<\/span>
\nSocrates<\/span><\/p>\n

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.<\/span>
\nNadine Stair<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.<\/span>
\nJoseph Stalin<\/span><\/p>\n

I am because my little dog knows me.<\/span>
\nGertrude Stein<\/span><\/p>\n

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.<\/span>
\nKerri Strug<\/span><\/p>\n

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.<\/span>
\nJames Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.<\/span>
\nThomas Traherne<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.<\/span>
\nThomas Traherne<\/span><\/p>\n

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though we can’t have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don’t get all we deserve.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the doorman’s payment.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

He has enough who is contented with little.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

She is not rich that possesses much, but she that is content with what she has.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.<\/span>
\nGeorge E. Vandeman<\/span><\/p>\n

When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.<\/span>
\nBill Vaughan<\/span><\/p>\n

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.<\/span>
\nIzaak Walton<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.<\/span>
\nWilliam A. Ward<\/span><\/p>\n

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.<\/span>
\nMary Webb<\/span><\/p>\n

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. <\/span>
\nSanchita Pandey<\/span><\/p>\n

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. <\/span>
\nKarl Barth<\/span><\/p>\n

As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee; As the scent to the rose, are those memories to me.<\/span>
\nAmelia C. Welby<\/span><\/p>\n

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. <\/span>
\nMargaret Cousins<\/span><\/p>\n

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.<\/span>
\nJohn Wesley<\/span><\/p>\n

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings. <\/span>
\nLaura Arrillaga-Andreessen<\/span><\/p>\n

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.<\/span>
\nRebecca West<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.<\/span>
\nWalt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.<\/span>
\nMarianne Williamson<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.<\/span>
\nNathaniel P. Willis<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.<\/span>
\nOprah Winfrey<\/span><\/p>\n

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace. <\/span>
\nArianna Huffington<\/span><\/p>\n

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. <\/span>
\nTony Robbins<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. <\/span>
\nHenri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.<\/span>
\nWilliam Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude. <\/span>
\nBruce Wilkinson<\/span><\/p>\n

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