Quotes About Gratitude

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

When the Christian praises and gives thanks to God, this not only pleases God, but it enriches the Christian's life with joy. It is a reciprocating transaction between God and man.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

I'm blessed to have great friends, and there are a lot of men in my life who've been more than just friends.