Thank You Quotes, Sayings about Gratitude - Page 2
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
- Joseph Addison
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- Cicero
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
O Lord to You we give thanks that in time Polish horses … defeat Nazi tanks.
- Saiom Shriver
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Seneca
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
- Francois Rochefoucauld
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischared.
- John Milton
Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.
- Jacqueline Winspear
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean Jacques
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
- Felix Frankfurter
We thank Thee, O Father of all, for… all the soul-help that sad souls understand.
- Will Carleton
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
- Elie Wiesel
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
- Johann Wolfgang
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
- R.H. Blyth
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every time we remember to say “thank you”, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
- Bertolt Brecht
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
- Gerald Good
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
- Edwin Arlington
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
- Margaret Cousins
Let’s be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.
- Marcel Proust
The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.
- Robert South
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
- Henry Clay
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
- William Faulkner
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner
I’ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning.
- William Wordsworth
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- Seneca
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.
- AuthoLord Halifax
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.
- Northrup Christiane
Gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon
Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.
- Courtland Milloy
As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- G.K. Chesterton


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