Gratitude Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. |
| - Joseph Addison |
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| Gratitude is the best attitude. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. |
| - Bertolt Brecht |
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| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. |
| - Cicero |
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| I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| If you have lived, take thankfully the past. |
| - John Dryden |
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| If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. |
| - Meister Eckhart |
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| The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. |
| - Horace |
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| As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| Thanks are justly due for boons unbought. |
| - Ovid |
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| We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. |
| - Cynthia Ozick |
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| When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. |
| - Estonian Proverb |
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| If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. |
| - Robert Quillen |
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| Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. |
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld |
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| Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. |
| - Sam Walton |
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| Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. |
| - William Arthur Ward |
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| We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. |
| - Thornton Wilder |
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