Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Doolittle

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

John Ortberg

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.

John O'Donohue

I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity of soul, / urgency of thought, / miracle of health, / embrace of God

John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

John Calvin

We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

John Calvin

It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

John Calvin

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

Joan Osborne

I try to stay in gratitude as much as I can. You know, we all get to the point where we're frazzled, or tired, or frustrated, or whatever it is, but I try to take those moments and realize that I do have so much to be grateful for, and allow it to send me back to those feelings of gratitude and just live in gratitude as much as I can.

Georg Simmel

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

Francois Fenelon

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

Joel Osteen

To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

Louise Hay

What kind of thoughts make you feel good? Thoughts of love, appreciation, gratitude, joyful childhood experiences? Thoughts in which you rejoice that you're alive and bless your body with love? Do you truly enjoy this present moment and get excited about tomorrow? Thinking these kinds of thoughts is an act of loving yourself, and loving yourself creates miracles in your life.

Louise Hay

Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance . . . for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.

Louise Hay

My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.

Louise Hay

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

Louise Hay

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

Louie Anderson

My inspiration is coming more and more from the way I feel and the gratitude I feel. The older you get the more humility you have.

Louisa May Alcott

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Louisa May Alcott

...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

John Green

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Lady Gaga

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

Lew Wallace

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

Lewis B. Smedes

Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

Lewis B. Smedes

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

Karl Popper

I don't know whether God exists or not. ... Some forms of atheism are arrogant and ignorant and should be rejected, but agnosticism—to admit that we don't know and to search—is all right. ... When I look at what I call the gift of life, I feel a gratitude which is in tune with some religious ideas of God. However, the moment I even speak of it, I am embarrassed that I may do something wrong to God in talking about God.

Karl Popper

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.

John Dryden

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.