Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!

Elie Wiesel

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

Elie Wiesel

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Elie Wiesel

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Elie Wiesel

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Edward Snowden

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

Ben Stein

I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful... It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.

Ben Stein

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

Barbara de Angelis

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Bernie Siegel

When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.

Bernie Siegel

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

Brian Tracy

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

Brian Tracy

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

Brian Tracy

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.

Brian Tracy

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Arianna Huffington

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

Anthony Trollope

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.