Gratitude Quotes - Page 3

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, 'I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.'

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

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?

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.

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

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.