Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

Charles Dickens

I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.

Charles Caleb Colton

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Charles Caleb Colton

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

Alan Ladd

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

Charlotte Bronte

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

Charles Dudley Warner

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Fidel Castro

We shall always be grateful for that gesture,

Tom Hardy

I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.'

Richard G. Scott

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dianne Wiest

I've been grateful for what comes along.

David Kim

If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.

Arianna Huffington

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Bryant H. McGill

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

Billy Graham

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

Rig Veda

Knowledge is also the giver of wealth or rather wealth is the by-product of knowledge.

David Smith

The people that have inherited that money have yet to really prove themselves as givers on the same level.

Guru Singh

He is the all powerful, safe Sanctuary, Lord and Master, Treasure of mercy, Giver of peace.

Juliette G. Low

The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

Granth Sahib

The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds are deluded.