Selected gratitude quotes

1. We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

2. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

3. I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time: the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

4. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

5. Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

6. What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

7. I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

8. The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

9. It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

10. Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

11. I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

12. Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

13. Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.

14. In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

15. To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

16. The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

17. Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

18. I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

19. Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

20. I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

21. The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

22. In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

23. Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

24. In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares.

25. It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

26. Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

27. Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

28. You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

29. I'm so grateful this day has ended well.

30. We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

31. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

32. No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

33. Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good. The gratitude of the nation to the sovereign arbiter of all human events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy. Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

34. Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

35. Beggars should be no choosers.

36. For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

37. Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

38. In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

39. Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

40. As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

41. 'I love you guys.' - Josh

42. :and for the dozens:and dozens of Mankind fans:

43. you've been so kind and generous I don't know how you keep on giving for your kindness I'm in debt to you for your selflessness, my admiration and for everything you've done you know I'm bound... I'm bound to thank you for it

44. Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around

45. Some folks just can't figure out when to shut up and say thank you I feel sorry for folks like that

46. She could never have been the woman of his dreams; there were times when he suspected she had once loved another man, too, that was as lost to her as both his Beatrice's were to him. Diko had been his teacher, his partner, his lover, his companion, the mother of many children, his true queen when they had shaped a great kingdom out of a thousand villages on fifty islands and two continents. He loved her. He was grateful to her. She had been a gift of god to him

47. 'I am a very big star. I don't deserve to be such a big star or to be in this position. It's all because of my parents are taking care of me. Dad wasn't so pushy, so it must be mom. On every happy occasion I feel sad because I wish mom was still present. How I wish she was here today.' - Shahrukh

48. Shahrukh has given me so much that I couldn't ask for more. - Gauri

49. Ya just workin with the scraps you was given/And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin

50. There are no words that can express how I feel/You never kept a secret, always stayed real/And I appreciate, how you raised me/And all the extra love that you gave me

51. to my niggas from old blocks/from old crews/niggas that guided me through/back in tha old school

52. And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough/And though we had it rough, we always had enough

53. And I realize momma really paid the price/She nearly gave her life, to raise me right

54. Thanks! Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted this! You don't know...my brother sitting there, he says 'Thank God we don't have to listen to anymore... you can do it now!' My mom's home, everyone's watching... I have to thank the people at Paramount; I have to thank Jerry Zucker for taking the time he took before he decided to use me because he was sure it was for me... I have to thank Patrick Swazye... he was a stand up guy and went to them and said 'I wanna do it with her'... I wanna thank Demi... I wanna thank everybody who makes movies... I come from New York; as a kid, I lived in the projects and you're the people I watched...you're the people that made me wanna be an actor... I'm so proud to be here, I'm proud to be an actor and I'm gonna keep on acting, and thank you so much!

55. Thank you, Thing.

56. Natales grate numeras?

57. He gave us our freedom.

58. One baby to another says I'm lucky to have met you

59. We Germans will never forget what the Soviet Army has accomplished for Germany during the past 10 years. I hope that in spite of all present existing difficulties our thanks will be expressed in deed. I drink a toast to the well-being and the future of the great and glorious Soviet Army and of loyal comradeship in arms for today and in the future.

60. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

61. I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

62. I'm gonna keep rockin'. Crazier things have happened in my life, and I'm just really blessed to have gotten this far.

63. I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

64. 'If I were to say 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.'

65. Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust uber den Wert der Dinge.

66. Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

67. I feel a very unusual sensation- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

68. Many thanks: I shall lose no time in reading it.

69. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

70. 'But of course that was the same boat that Aslan (he seems to be at the back of all the stories) pushed ashore at the right place for Asheesh to pick me up. I wish I knew that knight's name, fore he must have kept me alive and starved himself to do it' 'I suppose Aslan would say that was part of someone else's story,' said Aravis. 'I was forgetting that,' said Cor. (ch. 14)

71. Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: 'We give thanks to thee for thy great glory.' Need-love says of a woman 'I cannot live without her'; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

72. But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody! How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery, To love, and to be loved! Let's just hope that is enough.

73. Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.

74. 'What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me'

75. For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.

76. This is where I came from, and I thank a merciful God that I am able to return.

77. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

78. I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

79. Morning has broken, Like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them springing Fresh from the Word!

80. Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-creation Of the new day!

81. Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

82. Le trop grand empressement qu'on a de s'acquitter d'une obligation est une espece d'ingratitude.

83. La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrete envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits.

84. Ce n'est pas un grand malheur d'obliger des ingrats, mais c'en est un insupportable d'etre oblige a un malhonnete homme.

85. Well, what is essential about you? And who are those who have helped you become the person that you are? Anyone who has ever graduated from a college, anyone who has ever been able to sustain a good work, has had at least one person and often many who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

86. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

87. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

88. For myself, and for our nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.

89. It was very nice of her to come over to Moscow and thank me for saving the life of her grandfather, Churchill.

90. Thy pardon, Father, I beseech, In this my prayer if I offend; One something sees beyond his reach From childhood to his journey's end. My wife, our little boy Aignan, Have travelled even to Narbonne; My grandchild has seen Perpignan; And I - have not seen Carcassonne.

91. Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

92. Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written. Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore. So much increase of terra firma. this may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed.

93. The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted..

94. Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

95. If there is an amateur reader still left in the world--or anybody who just reads and runs--I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

96. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

97. 'If you believe,' he shouted to them, 'clap your hands; don't let Tink die.' Many clapped. Some didn't. A few beasts hissed. The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have like to get at the ones who had hissed.

98. It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

99. All I can say is for a guy like me, who's been dangling in this business for the last 20 years, to finally have something hit, it's unexpected and very touching. (2003)

100. [I did] mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't. (2004)