Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

Lord Chesterfield

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

Lord Chesterfield

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

Maimonides

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In Thy fullness, my Lord, Filled with thy grace, For the purpose of union with Thee And to satisfy and glorify Thy creation, With thanks to Thee with all our hearts And with all our love for Thee, With all adoration for all Thy blessings We accept thy gift as it has come to us. The food is Thy blessing and in Thy service We accept in all gratitude, my Lord.

Mahatma Gandhi

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Julie Garwood

Go and change your gown, Mary," Daniel interjected. "I'm partial to gold. If you've a gown in that color, wear it to please me. If not, white will do well enough. I'm wedding you, Lady Mary." Lord Daniel Ferguson caught Lady Mary before she hit the floor. He wasn't at all irritated that his intended had just fainted dead away, and he actually let out a full burst of laughter as he swept Mary up into his arms and held her against his chest. "She's overcome with gratitude, Alec," Daniel called out to his friend. "Aye, Daniel, I can see she is," Alec answered.

Joyce Brothers

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Jules Renard

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

Karl Barth

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

Karl Barth

Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

Karl Kraus

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Ouida

It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.

Otto von Bismarck

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

Paul Tillich

The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

Maggie Stiefvater

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Harbhajan Singh

Ever since Sourav became the captain, I do not feel like a youngster in the team any more. Everybody is treated equally and Sourav himself is extremely approachable and a pillar of strength. Sourav stood by me when I was struggling. I owe a great deal to him for standing by me at the most important time. I can't express my gratitude to him in words.

Hans Selye

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Hans Selye

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Hans Selye

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

John Dryden

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

Matthew McConaughey

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Matthew McConaughey

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human kind. He has shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates. In the words of the late (British actor) Charlie Laughton, who said, 'When you got God, you got a friend and that friend is you.'

Matthew McConaughey

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates

Edward de Bono

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Edward Bach

And may we ever have gratitude in hearts that the great Creator in all His glory has placed the herbs in the field for our healing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Jonathan Jackson

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Jonathan Cain

I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord.