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Quotes About Gratitude

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way
~ Eric Church
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'
~ Robin Williams
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
~ John Calvin
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
~ F. F. Bruce
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
~ Eric Stoltz
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
~ Wally Lamb
Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.
~ George Ellwanger
May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
~ Facundo Cabral
Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.
~ Sharon Creech
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
~ Ruth Benedict
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
~ Eddie Van Halen
The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.
~ Kid Cudi
One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
~ Publilius Syrus
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
~ Saadi
Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
~ Jack London
For the wise man, every day is a festival.
~ Plutarch
To a man with an empty stomach food is God
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
~ King James I
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.
~ Gary Cooper