Quotes About Gratitude

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

A day without prayer is a boast against God.

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.

God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.