Thankfulness Quotes

Happy is the man who loves the woods and waters,
Brother to the grass and well beloved of Pan;
The earth shall be his, and all her laughing daughters.
Happy the man.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer’s sunshine, winter’s snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I’m very grateful to all of you.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Thankfulness
can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you’ll be
relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
dissatisfied.

May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.

My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

When you are sharing your joy, you don’t create a prison for anybody – you simply give. You donВґt even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because you are giving, but not to get anything, not even gratitude. You are giving because you are so full of joy and life, you have to give.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn’t, I’m going to get your vote next time.

Thanksgiving. It’s like we didn’t even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?’

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

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

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Thankfulness eradicates entitlement.

I’m thankful for every moment.

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper – the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful ‘in general.’ It’s very strange. It’s a little like being married in general.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there’s been points in my life when they weren’t around, and it’s a real sort of miserable existence.

I’m very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I’m very critical of what I do.

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth’s gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God’s providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God’s providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.

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

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.

I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The truth is, after Boys Don’t Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Gratitude isn’t just a feeling, it’s an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a lasting impression that can bring more gratitude into the world-for children and adults.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

We’re having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we’re having a swan. You get more stuffing

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

This little kid pointed at me and said, ‘You look disgusting!’ That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I’d better start eating. I’m just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind their own business.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

I’m thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that’s because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Even if we can’t be happy, we must always be cheerful.

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, “I have got a friend!”

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Whenever you can’t think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, ‘I’m still here.’ Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

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.

He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

I still don’t look at myself as a star. I’ve always had a thankful heart.

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

If you can’t be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It’s the highest form of thankfulness.

Thankfulness makes much of little.

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present … we experience heaven on earth.

A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

No matter how small, a favor deserves thanks.

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I’m working and I’m thankful for that

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

The Christian’s life should be one of thankfulness to God.

There is too little courtship in the world. … For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person’s eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other’s ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one’s good luck.

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!

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can’t believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, ‘If you don’t win, Dad, you’re still good,’ … who taught me how to act.

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I’ve been doing L’Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful.

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man – yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.

I’m really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don’t think about it as being a leader.

But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our hands together, palm to palm, settling here on the last leaf of our brief flight, and bow to the wonder of it.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

…One who possesses four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there. What four? Bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, mental good conduct, and gratitude or thankfulness. One possessing these four qualities is deposited in heaven as if brought there.

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

But I’m very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

I was in the postseason twice and I’m thankful for that

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

I’ve been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I’ve managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I’m very thankful

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

And I’m so thankful that I’ve been allowed to show another side of Trish.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that GodВ infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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.

Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.

There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that’s happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

O happiness! our being’s end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate’er thy name:
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

I would like to thank my coach for believing in me.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

I’ve never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn’t, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

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

A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we mustВ thinkВ to give thanks.

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

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.

Truly, I’m not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don’t want to fritter away the new lease on life I’ve been given.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!

I’m very thankful to be doing what I’m doing. I feel very blessed.

Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

When I close my eyes at night I’m able to go to bed with a heart full of gratitude. When I wake up in the morning my heart is full with thankfulness and peace. I don’t know what tomorrow will hold, but I do know I will live each day to the fullest.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

An attitude of gratitude brings great things.