Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie Smith

I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.

Greg Bear

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

Matt Holliday

I had some tough times. Now that I look back on it, I'm very grateful for those times. I know now that I needed them. But at the time you think, 'Man, I wish I could just get to the major leagues!'

Maya Angelou

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

Maya Angelou

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Maya Angelou

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Maya Angelou

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

Maurice Hinchey

I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.

Robert Holden

No matter how hard you try it is impossible to be grateful and depressed.

Edie Falco

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

Jonathan Lipnicki

I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got.

Kate Walsh

I have a lot to be grateful for. I really do kind of get into the holiday spirit and try to find something to be grateful for anyway but this is the time of year so.

Katey Sagal

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

Tyler Hoechlin

Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people.

Travis Barker

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

Rebecca Solnit

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

Rebecca Solnit

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Rhonda Byrne

Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

Rhonda Byrne

I'm so happy and grateful now that...

Rhonda Byrne

There is always something to be grateful for.

Rhonda Byrne

Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that.... "

Rhonda Byrne

Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

Rhonda Byrne

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

Rhonda Byrne

Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.

Rick Warren

Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.

Patton Oswalt

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

Paul Wall

No matter who you are, you always want more recognition, but I'm grateful for what I do have, and I feel like I've earned it... So I'm going to continue to put in that hard work, and build relationships with people, and continue to grow as an artist... So hopefully from that, I'll be able to get more recognition...

Marty Meehan

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Philippe Falardeau

If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from everywhere - from Quebec, Israel, Poland, and Belgium. It's not the usual French, German, etc. This category is opening up to socially engaged and political films. I think we're going to see a cross over to the main categories also. It's part of this global environment now and I'm grateful that the Academy is having this window on world cinema.

Philip Massinger

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

Paulo Coelho

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.