Quotes About Gratitude

A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

Eighth and lastly. They are so grateful!!

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

He that's content, hath enough; He that complains, has too much.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

When I wake up in the morning, I immediately check the morning paper. If my name is not in the obituaries, I get up

When you are good to others you are best to yourself.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.