Quotes About Gratitude

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.