Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

William Wordsworth

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

Erwin McManus

Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

Ernest Holmes

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

Henry Miller

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Helen Keller

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Helen Keller

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

Helen Keller

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

Helen Keller

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Cassandra Clare

And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between force and cooperation, between fear and willingness, between love and torture. And with that realization came a rush of numbness—what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn’t even know he was one?

George Eliot

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

It's remarkable, my word. I've never seen so many people assembled in one place at one time in all my life ... and the gratitude in their expressions.

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.

Mindy Kaling

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

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...

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.

Joseph Joubert

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

Katherine Jenkins

I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

Katherine Paterson

What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

Julian Clary

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.