Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

Charles Spurgeon

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

Charles Spurgeon

The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

Byron Katie

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

Byron Katie

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Bruce Wilkinson

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.

Chris Brown

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

Chip Conley

Café Gratitude offers an experience that expands what is possible for all people–a great recipe for business. I've watched Café Gratitude grow and have experienced both the flavors of their food and their commitment to providing a sacred experience for their customers.

Chip Conley

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

Chen Guangcheng

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

Charlie Munger

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you'll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you'll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

William Shakespeare

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

William Shakespeare

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!

Bernard Meltzer

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bill Goldberg

All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.

Betty Buckley

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

Bill Gates

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

Aimee Bender

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

Bernard Goldberg

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

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.

Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

Carl Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful

Carl Jung

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Carl Jung

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Dorothy Dix

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

Dorothy Day

Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.

Doris Day

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Donald Miller

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Dalai Lama

When we develop a right attitude of compassion and gratitude, we take a giant step towards solving our personal and international problems