Quotes About Thankfulness

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Can this be faith?' he wondered, afraid to believe his happiness. 'My God, thank you!' he said, choking back the rising sobs and with both hands wiping away the tears that filled his eyes.

I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.

What is a Pietist, papa?" asked Kitty, dismayed to find that what she prized so highly in Madame Stahl had a name. "I don't quite know myself. I only know that she thanks God for everything, for every misfortune, and thanks God too that her husband died. And that's rather droll, as they didn't get on together.

Out of all the vices, the most difficult is ingratitude.

Gratitude, with no complaints, is the attitude that I would like to have, not only at the end of my life, but from now until then.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

We should value what we have and not take it for granted.

Researchers have found that people who write down three things they're grateful for every night (or even a few times a week) improve their well-being and lower their risk of depression.

The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole

If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

I have to have an attitude of gratitude and not miss opportunities.

I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I am overwhelmed for whatever I have achieved so far. I give the credit to my mother and everyone who has helped me.