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Quotes About Gratitude

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.
~ Odell Shepard
For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving
~ Don Henley
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
~ Ted Allen
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
~ William Dean Howells
God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
~ Paul Brunton
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
~ Seneca the Younger
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
~ Jerry Bridges
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
~ Tiger Woods
I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.
~ Chris Thile
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
~ Laurence Binyon
May I so boldly suggest that this Thanksgiving, we focus on one-on-one conversations, instead of broadcasting our lives to the masses.
~ Randi Zuckerberg
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
~ Charles Lamb
I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.
~ C. S. Lewis
Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.
~ Al Jarreau
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.
~ Craig Ferguson
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
~ Seneca the Younger
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
~ Kevin DeYoung
The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.
~ Regina Brett
That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.
~ Francis Quarles
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
~ Mark Twain
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
~ Norman Vincent Peale