Quotes About Gratitude

Spend a moment, every day, thinking of someone to love.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.

I'm a most lucky and thankful woman. Lucky and thankful for each morning I wake up. For three wonderful daughters and one son. For an understanding and very loving husband with whom I've shared fifty-two blessed years, all in good health.

My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, "Don't worry, Be Happy, Feel Good." When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Sure I love the dear silver that shines in your hair, And the brow that's all furrowed, and wrinkled with care. I kiss the dear fingers, so toil-worn for me, Oh, God bless you and keep you, Mother Machree.

Her children arise up and call her blessed.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

What you praise you increase.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.