Quotes About Gratitude

You're only a new artist one time, and I can just say I'm so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.

It's cool to talk to the fans and get some one-on-one time and shake hands, sign autographs, take some pictures and have conversations with people.

Gratitude is important. One has to look beyond oneself to see that while there may be people who are far better off, one has been given so much more than so many.

I told my fans online how I hated my squeaky office chair. One day, a fan sent me a new chair. It was crazy! I still use the chair today. Pretty awesome.

I was an only child who had every advantage, every blessing, absolutely.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

When Kehlani brought me out onstage, I really enjoyed that. I was just appreciative for her to think of me and bring me out woman to woman, introducing me to a whole new audience to me. It was just showing that I was appreciated for what I'm doing, that some people mess with me, and I'm all over the place.

We put so much of ourselves onstage and we work so hard, that I never get tired of people telling me 'you're awesome.'

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.

Every time I step onto the field, I think of my parents. It's such an honor to represent them and my family.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Atlanta has accepted me with open arms. Baltimore is always my first home but being able to come here is special.

I feel like I'm really grateful that my parents chose Canada, and I feel like there's open arms here, and it's very apparent.

You need somebody to open your eyes, to tell you there's things that you can do, and I had that person in Brian Marwood. I think if I'm where I am today, it's because of him.

'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

'Modern Family' has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.

McSteamy's been really good to me. He's opened a lot of doors.

I love what Eric Church is doing. He and I are friends, and he opened some shows for us a few years ago and I would fly him home on the jet. He is a good one.

I feel very lucky. 'Bake Off' has opened more doors for me. I was so delighted to get the job.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.