Quotes About Thankfulness

Overdo Thank-Yous:

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

focus on what they have in life rather than what they don't have.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Lord, everywhere I look I see signs of how great You are. Thank You for Your amazing creation, including me!

Prayer is the most important part of the thankfulness God requires of us.

for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Gratitude brings more to be grateful about. It increases your abundant life. Lack of gratitude, or complaining, brings little to rejoice about. Complainers always find that they have little good in their life, or they do not enjoy what they do have. The Universe always gives us what we believe we deserve.

I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe. Thank you, Life.

In offering up our gratitude, we open ourselves to receiving and living in a state of grace. This is the gift of the Goddess, and she is longing to bestow it on us all. Being so grateful even before you receive—this is the stuff that creates miracles.

Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.

Do you know the sums that I do?" "I count my blessings.

Clara rose with exaggerated calm. She took Jane in her arms and felt the old body creak back into place. Then she said a little prayer of thanks to the gods that give grace. The grace to cry and the grace to watch.

Peter's a lucky man," he said. "Except in one respect. He doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God's word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you've got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you've already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you're not what you used to be.

One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine..