Gratitude Quotes - Appreciate
and Give Thanks



Use these gratitude quotes to keep you focused on the blessings in your life. Whatever you focus on grows.

Studies show that grateful people lead happier, more successful lives. That awareness helps you recognize the positive things, and you feel more optimistic, so when something bad or challenging happens, you don’t get bogged down for as long. Keeping a grateful heart makes you more mentally resilient, more focused on the good things you want for yourself in life.

Somehow just making myself look at life with eyes of gratitude changes everything. We're so blessed to be alive, breathing, with friends and family about, living on this amazing planet. So much of this "stuff" around us means nothing, and we are rich in heart and spirit with all the things that DO matter - we already have everything we need.

Gratitude Quotes

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

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

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. ~ Edward F. Halifax

Gratitude is heaven itself. ~ William Blake

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

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

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

Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~ George Colman

Gratitude Quotes

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Thou hast given so much to me,Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;Not thankful when it pleaseth me,As if Thy blessings had spare days,But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~ George Herbert

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

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ~ Joseph Addison

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck. ~ Buddha

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ G. K. Chesterton

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

Gratitude Quotes

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise. ~ Baha’u'llah

To the grateful man give more than he asks. ~ Spanish Proverb

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.Find a way to be thankful for your troublesand they can become your blessings. ~ Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

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