Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Taylor

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Pause and remember - You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!

George Eliot

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

Gary Ross

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

Gary Sinise

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

Gary Sinise

Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand in times of need to those who willingly sacrifice each day to provide that freedom and security. While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Frank Knox

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

Faith Baldwin

Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.

Faith Baldwin

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance.

George R. R. Martin

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Frederick Douglass

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

Fanny Burney

How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and happy. The unhappy individual does the opposite!

Ezra Taft Benson

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

Ezra Taft Benson

We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

Ezra Taft Benson

We need to be more grateful. I think there is no true character without gratitude. It is one of the marks of a real strong character to have a feeling of thanksgiving and gratitude for blessings. We need more of that spirit in our homes, in our daily associations, in the church, everywhere. It doesn't cost anything, and it is so easy to cultivate.

Euripides

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Jennifer Egan

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

Jean de La Fontaine

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

Harper Lee

I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful.

Harper Lee

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Ignatius of Loyola

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

Iain Banks

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,

Hosea Ballou

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Hosea Ballou

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

Horace

Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Hannah Arendt

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

Guy Finley

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.