Quotes About Gratitude

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

I know that virtually every member of the Senate understands we just cannot turn our back on men and women who have put their lives on the line to defend us and who are hurting today.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

I always have been a guy that's always smiling, always laughing. And really, my family, man. Just them right there, when I see my little girls, I mean, that's just an automatic smile right there.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.