Quotes About Gratitude

Begin whatever you're doing by remembering that you are here and you have been given a gift.

read in the Psalms, The earth is the LORD's and everything in it.

Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

If you are looking for a particular response to bring you joy, that response may never come. The joy comes from being fully present in this moment. The reward is in throwing yourself into it right here and now.

Giving the gift is reward enough. That's where the life is. That's where the joy is.

Success says, What more can I get? Craft says, Can you believe I get to do this?

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

Thank you' ranks just below 4You ruined my life' and just above 'When I get my hands on you.

Thank you' ranks just below 'You ruined my life' and just above 'When I get my hands on you.

Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.

Richard Russell adored his wife. After they had been married for almost forty years, he sent her a note saying, "With a sense of love and gratitude that is overpowering, I can only say God bless you, idol of my heart.

Someday, let us sit on this bench and reflect on the gratitude of man. Down in the audience, the ministers of the empire of Moses glanced at one another and nodded their heads. RM was right as usual, they whispered. Couldn't people see what he had done? Why weren't they grateful?

For someone who needs gratitude, the New Deal is the natural philosophy, because it lets you do things for people, and therefore gives you the greatest opportunity to get gratitude.

there is plenty for everyone. Everything we need is flowing by us — all we have to do is get out of the way of our own small thinking and let it come. Look

Robert A. Heinlein

Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . .

God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment.

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment. Resentment from most people I do not mind—but from pretty little girls it is distasteful to me.

You don't pay back, you pay forward.

Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever.