Quotes About Gratitude

I've been really fortunate, man, I got out of the game after 14 years and ... I certainly got hit plenty, but everything, so far, functions fairly well.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

Be grateful for the positive things in your life... right now, today... while you still have them.

Yankee private Henry Struble was not only listed as a casualty after Antietam but assigned a grave after his canteen was found in the hands of a dead man he had stopped to help. After the war ended, Struble sent flowers every Memorial Day to decorate his own grave, to honor the unknown soldier it sheltered and perhaps to acknowledge that there but for God's grace he might lie.

Richmond's Mrs. William McFarland. "Let us remember that we belong to that sex which was last at the cross, first at the grave…Let us go now, hand in hand, to the graves of our country's sons, and as we go let our energies be aroused and our hearts be thrilled by this thought: It is the least thing we can do for our soldiers.

Aren't waiters wonderful? You ask them for things and they bring them... It's the same principle as Santa Claus.

My solicitous wife has kept me going despite the ravages of time. I trust she is not weary in well doing nor tired of being thanked.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I thank everyone I don't love. They don't cause me heartache they don't make me write long letters they don't disturb my dreams I don't await them anxiously I don't read their horoscopes in magazines I don't dial their numbers I don't think of them. I thank them a lot they don't turn my life upside down.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.

You have to enjoy life in the process. It may sound corny, but it's true. At the end of the day, we can't always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.

The treasures of your life will present themselves to you only if you really are open to them.

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.