Quotes About Gratitude

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

Admiration, gratitude, a sort of hope for better days, were mingled with pride at having such a pretty daughter.

he began to weep on his own account. Observing this grief, the abbe dried his pupil's tears, bidding him observe that the good woman took her snuff most offensively, and was becoming so ugly and deaf and tedious that he ought to return thanks for her death.

The elder boy's plain white collar, turned down over a closely fitting jacket, made a contrast with his brother's clothing, but the color and material were the same; the two brothers were otherwise dressed alike, and looked alike. No one could see them without feeling touched by the way in which Louis took care of Marie. There was an almost fatherly look in the older boy's eyes; and Marie, child though he was, seemed to be full of gratitude to Louis.

Monsieur, I owe you a million thanks — — " "A million thanks," thought he to himself, "that is too many; it does not mean one.

We've been lucky," he said, rising from his chair with his palm pressed against his forehead as he heard the ambulance attendants on the front path outside. "We had her four months longer than she was expected to live." Lucky? I thought, as I stood behind an emergency room curtain an hour later, holding my mother's hand and trying to press ice chips between her cracked and bloodstained lips. Could someone identify the lucky people here?

Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.

I can forget injuries, but never benefits.

Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.

M-O-T-H-E-R "M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she's growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me, "H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she'll always be, Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER," A word that means the world to me.

Try and enjoy the here and now. The future will take care of itself somehow. The grass is never greener over there.

You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice.

Everything I loved most happened most every day.

Marry," quoth Robin, laughing, and weighing the flask in his hands ere he drank, "methinks it is no more than seemly of you all to be glad to see me, seeing that I bring sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf, and such a lusty leg to a lame man. I drink to your happiness, brothers, as I may not drink to your health, seeing ye are already hale, wind and limb.