Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Malory

Enough is as good as a feast.

Thomas Merton

My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

Thomas Merton

We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and even to find Him, even though it may not appear to find Him. Gratitude and confidence and freedom from ourselves: these are signs that we have found our vocation and are living up to it even though everything else may seem to have gone wrong. They give us peace in any suffering. They teach us to laugh at despair. And we may have to.

Thomas Merton

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Thomas Merton

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Tommy Lasorda

It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.

Steven Blum

Toonami was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

Stefan Zweig

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Thomas Guthrie

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

Thomas Harris

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

Thomas Gray

The still small voice of gratitude.

Thomas Gray

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.

Thomas Jefferson

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

Victoria Osteen

As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

Victor Davis Hanson

Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.

Victor Hugo

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

Richard Bach

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

Saul Bellow

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

Roger Scruton

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

Roger Scruton

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Robert Quillen

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

Sasha Azevedo

Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.

Sasha Azevedo

I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

Satish Kumar

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Satish Kumar

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

Sarah McLachlan

I think one of the most important things, that this album is for me, and this period in my life, is about gratitude. About recognizing all of the things, daily, that I'm grateful for, and there are many in my life. I'm just so blessed, and I try to carry that with me every day.

Sara Teasdale

And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.