Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

George Bernard Shaw

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Galileo Galilei

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

William Wordsworth

I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deedsWith coldness still returning;Alas! the gratitude of menHath oftener left me mourning.

James Earl Jones

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

James Dobson

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Jane Porter

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them ...

Ethan Hawke

It just makes sense to remember gratitude and the place that gratitude should have in your life, and that none of us are owed these wonderful experiences, and we should always make the best of them.

Carmen Electra

Just having women come up to me and say they love the workout series, and that they have it and have guys come up and say, "I bought it for my girlfriend and she loves it." I feel really lucky and have gratitude for that, and now I get to put out a new series so I'm very happy.

Eustace Budgell

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Glen Hansard

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

George Harrison

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

Jim Butcher

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

H. G. Wells

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

Jean Anouilh

The true masters of the art of living are already happy...

Mindy Kaling

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

Kirk Douglas

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

Joseph Joubert

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

Gene Fowler

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Giacomo Casanova

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Giacomo Casanova

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Jessica Pare

I love acting. I love what I do. I am absolutely filled every day with gratitude that I get to do it.

Honore de Balzac

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.