Quotes About Gratitude

I've taken fights on short notice while injured to help save shows, and in return I've been taken care of.

If 'Soorma' is getting me noticed, I have the director, Shaad Ali, to thank for it.

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

Training in Brazil at Nova Uniao was nothing short of amazing. I can't thank Leo Santos and coach Andre Pederneiras enough for their efforts.

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

I be thinking sometimes, maybe I'm just too hard on people. Maybe I want too much. But no, I don't. All my granny did was cook for me, tell me that she love me, gave me hugs every now and then.

In my line of work, I frequently communicate with CEOs and their executive assistants, and nowhere is the need for gratitude more clear.

I'm very conscious that I'm in the minority in that I love what I do. How big is the number of people who are running to work to do a job that they like? And how lucky to be employed at it - how incredibly lucky.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

Dad was a draughtsman; he's now retired. Mum was a nurse who spent a lot of her time in ER and oncology. She's such a compassionate, generous person. If I was meeting her on the worst day of my life, I'd be very grateful to have met her.

When you spend time with people who have served our country in the military or doctors and nurses, it is embarrassing when you see what footballers earn.

For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

I am really close to my mum. She always made me do my school and make sure I got all my grades. She is a physiotherapist, which is a massive help to me, so in terms of nutrition, she was the one who made sure I was eating all the right food, and I can only thank her that she kept me fit and healthy.

The city of Oakland, since I got here, has been like my second family. They've taken me in and had my back through the hard times and they've celebrated with me through the good times. And so, I love Oakland.

Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.

In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.