Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Deavere Smith

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

Alicia Keys

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

Alice Barrett

So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.

Alice Barrett

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

Alice Duer Miller

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Anne Heche

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

Anne Lamott

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

Anne Lamott

Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

The contractors did a great job. They only had intersession break. We are just so happy and grateful we got such a great renovation.

Drew Barrymore

I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

Dr. Seuss

Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

Donald Miller

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

Dalai Lama

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

David A. Bednar

A grateful person is rich in contentment.

David A. Bednar

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Dag Hammarskjold

When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has matured and, through a dissolution of the self into light, become a radiance, then shall the Lover be liberated from dependence upon the Beloved, and the Beloved also be made perfect by being liberated from the Lover.

Dag Hammarskjold

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Condoleezza Rice

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that for me it means asking for guidance, and that in the toughest times there's a personal savior that I can rely on. And I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me that.

Colin Farrell

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

Danielle Panabaker

I can empathize with women who feel that [sexism]. I personally haven't experienced it, and I'm grateful for that. I feel very appreciated on the show I'm on, but I do empathize. My concern is less the entertainment industry specifically, and more the general problem that women don't get paid as much as men in any industry.

Danielle Panabaker

I'm grateful for the exposure that being on a show like The Flash gives me, particularly in this generation of social media and how accessible you can be to fans. And I think it's important to use that platform to send a positive message.

Cliff Richard

I'm very grateful because my fans are very loyal.

David Canary

Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

Dalia Mogahed

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

David Gemmell

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

David Boreanaz

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

David Bowie

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

Deepak Chopra

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

Anna Quindlen

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

Chuck Norris

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

Alfred Bester

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

Alfred Adler

I am grateful for the idea that has used me.