Inspirational Quotes - Gratitude

"The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.” - Wallace D.Wattles

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus

“Gratitude turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” - Melody Beattie

"Gratitude is the best attitude." - Unknown

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.” - Brother David
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” - Cicero

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings” - Eric Hoffer

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John F. Kennedy

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.” - Leroy Paige

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?” - William A. Ward

"He who does not thank for little will not thank for much." - Estonian Proverb
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William A. Ward

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” - Brian Tracy

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” - Anthony Robbins
"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.” - Eileen Caddy

"If the only prayer you say in your life is "thank you," that would suffice.” - Meister Eckhart

"Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot." - The Hausa of Nigeria

“They are not poor that have little, but they that desire much. The richest man, whatever his lot, is the one who's content with his lot” - Dutch Proverb

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." - Seneca

"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.” - Terry Lynn Taylor

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it--would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” - Ralph Marston

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” - Henry Ward Beecher

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” - Christiane Northrup

" Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude” - Confucius

"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.” - Sara Ban Breathnach

"A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise." - Estonia Proverb

"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic" - John Henry Jowett

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." - Buddha

“I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.” - Hellen Keller

“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” - Albert Clarke

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross