Gratitude Quotes

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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

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

It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni

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

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

Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.
Loretta Young

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

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

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

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

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

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha

Gratitude is 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

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

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

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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles

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

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
Marya Mannes

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

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