Quotes About Gratitude

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.

I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God

Give thanks to God for whatever happens in life. Nothing is a mistake. An end leads to a new start.

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

I wake up every morning to say thank you God for waking me up to see another day to enjoy life.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.

There's nothing like lateness in divine blessings because all it takes is five minutes with the right one to be thankful for all the wrong ones that prepared you for that unique person.

Thank you Lord for another beautiful day. For opening up my eyes & ears, to see and hear the goodness you have left here for us. Teach me more.

You believed in me when no one else did; you accepted me for who I am when people rejected me; and you helped and comforted me when there was no one else to lend me a helping hand. Thank you.

Mom, thank you for all that you've done and still do. I do love you and no one can replace my love to you.

God Bless America! For taking a day off their busy life style, & calling it Thanks Giving! Turning that day into a National Holiday, just to Say! Thank You Lord, for Blessing Us so Bountiful!

Thank Jesus every day of your life not just on Thanksgiving Day.

Give thanks to God first because without him you wouldn't have everything else that you're thankful for.

Our friendship isn't perfect, we fight and then we makeup, we yell and then we talk. We don't always get along but whether I'm up or I'm down you're always around. You're there for me on my good days and my bad days and this Thanksgiving Holiday I'd like to say thank you for being a true friend. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving and every season of our lives that we are blessed to see a new should be a time we offer praise, worship, and thankfulness to God!

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

I am thankful for all the poor choices I have made in my life because they all eventually led me to where I am... and I couldn't ask for a better place to be.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Gratitude is way of thanks giving and appreciation in return for support and honoring one's virtue. But gratitude should not be only an utter word but one should live by it. Gratitude can motivate others, builds social ties and increases self esteem. Gratitude is the essence of good mental health and spirituality.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

You can fill that house to the rafters with all the baby girls you want, now that you're married to me. And I promise to be nothing but grateful.