Quotes About Appreciation

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

You can't appreciate home until you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

Generally the man with a good wife, or the woman with a good husband, or the children with good parents discover too late the goodness they overlooked while it was in full bloom.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.

He has enough who is contented with little.