Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Aristotle

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Earl Nightingale

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Deepak Chopra

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

Dominic Cooper

I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how you expected them to be or how far removed they are from how you expect them to be. On the one hand, you're extraordinarily grateful and terribly excited, but on the other, I stop and go, "I wonder what the future does hold."

Dionne Warwick

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Benjamin Franklin

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

Arthur Golden

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

Bellamy Young

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

Billy Crystal

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do. I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years . . . and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

Boris Pasternak

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Brigitte Bardot

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Bonnie Raitt

There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

David Blankenhorn

We're just grateful to them in some real and intense way. Here in New York, people, they go up to these guys at the firehouses and in the streets, and they just want to say how grateful they are.

Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.

We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

Barney Frank

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

Denis Leary

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

Deborah Norville

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.

Deborah Norville

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

Deborah Norville

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We can choose to be grateful, no matter what,

Diana Rigg

I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.

Deepak Chopra

There is always a reason to be grateful.

Edward Snowden

When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me. The result is a brave and brilliant film that deserves the honor and recognition it has received. My hope is that this award will encourage more people to see the film and be inspired by its message that ordinary citizens, working together, can change the world.

Edward Gibbon

The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the grateful provincials enjoyed the blessings of his reign; but the favourites, who had opposed his elevation, were offended by his virtues; and they justly considered the friend of the people as the enemy of the court.

Pamela Stephenson

I was grateful for my psychological training, because it prepared me to step back a little and contextualize Billy's experiences.

Baruch Spinoza

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

Augusten Burroughs

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

Ayn Rand

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

Cameron Diaz

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.