Gratitude Quotes

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

John Milton

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 16-18

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving

Colossians 4:2

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Be ye thankful.

Colossians 3:15

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 107:1

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Psalm 103:2-5

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

James 1:2-4

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

Psalm 95:2

Gratitude breeds optimism, enthusiasm, resilience, happiness, and overall satisfaction which can decrease anxiety and depression.

Beth Bunchman

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. While its opponent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only poisonous in itself but impregnating the very atmosphere in which it grows, with fetid vapors.

Hosea Ballou

Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Epicurus

The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, 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

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.

Achilles Poincelot

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

John Ortberg

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

Albert Schweitzer

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

Aesop

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Guillaume Massieu

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.

Ovid

A grateful mind

By owing owes not, but still pays, at once

Indebted and discharg'd.

John Milton

Gratitude is a right estimate of our relationship to God, to others, and to life itself, because gratitude is the recognition that no one is a solitary achiever, no one has accumulated success or wealth unaided. Every human being is a debtor.

J Ellsworth Kalas

O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Shakespeare

Gratitude is a dynamic principle, one that makes us realize what we still have, even after so much has been taken. Gratitude is finding something to be grateful for, no matter how bad the situation is.

Kathleen O'Hara

The expression of gratitude is a kind of metastrategy for achieving happiness. Gratitude is many things to many people. It is wonder; it is appreciation; it is looking at the bright side of a setback; it is fathoming abundance; it is thanking someone in your life; it is thanking God; it is "counting blessings." It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is coping; it is present-oriented. Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, avarice, hostility, worry, and irritation.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

That man is most blessed, who receives his daily bread with gratitude and thankfulness from the hand of God; and he who does so, experiences a pleasure that exceeds description.

David Kalakaua

Gratitude is a second pleasure, one that prolongs the pleasure that precedes and occasions it, like a joyful echo of the joy we feel, a further happiness for the happiness we have been given.

Andre Comte-Sponville

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

Roy T Bennett

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Maya Angelou

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

Elie Wiesel

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.

Maya Angelou

Gratitude is glory to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is heaven itself.

William Blake

Gratitude leads to wellness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I live my life in gratitude.

Olivia Newton-John

Gratitude is infinite praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Gratitude is a gladness of soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop

Gratitude is the the energy of faith.

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude builds a bridge to abundance.

Roy Bennett

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Berthold Auerbach

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

Chris Brown

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K Chesterton

Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day

Gratitude is a discipline, not an emotion.

Josh Becker

Gratitude is the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Emerson

Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.

Michael McMillian

Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.

William George Jordan

Anxiety and gratitude can’t live in the same head.

James Altucher

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

M J Ryan

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

James MacDonald

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

Ralph Blum

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

William Romaine

There is not a more pleasant exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Joseph Addison

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

Florence Scovel Shinn

Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

William Blake

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

Seneca the Younger

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Jack Canfield

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God's good will toward us in all his gifts.

John Piper

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

James E Faust

Count your blessings.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

William Arthur Ward

Expect less, appreciate more.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Count Your Blessings…Not Your Problems

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

It’s not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.

David Allen