Gratitude Quotes

Top 10 Gratitude Quotes:

"Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality."
- Alfred Painter

"This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural."
- Jessica Lange

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

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

"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."
- Melody Beattie

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."
- Author Unknown

"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style."
- Rebecca Solnit

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'"
- William A. Ward

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
- G.B. Stern

"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

More Gratitude Quotes:

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
- Eckhart Tolle

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden

"What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude."
- Brene Brown

"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things."
- Plato

"The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see."
- Dr. Rober Holden

"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."
- Randy Pausch

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

"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

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

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."
- William Arthur Ward

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
- Maya Angelou

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller

"O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one more thing-a grateful heart."
- George Herbert

"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."
- Lauryn Hill

"May you be strengthened by yesterday’s rain, walk straight in tomorrow’s wind and cherish each moment of the sun today."
- Ojibwe Saying

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