Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Grace Gealey

I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

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.

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.