Appreciative Quotes

• I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

  Mitch Albom

  Passionate, Casual, Reader

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• My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.

  Nolan Ryan

  Baseball, Given, Ability

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• Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

  Alfred Agache

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

  George W. Crane

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

  Lucille Ball

  Regret, Talent, Passing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

  Richard Roeper

  Creative, Radio

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• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Happiness, Success, Laughter

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

  William Arthur Ward

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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• Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.

  Christina Milian

  Fun, Thinking, Way

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• We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Sweet, Reality

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Mean, Loss

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

  Elizabeth Kim

  Careers, Appreciate, Loner

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• The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

  Jonathan Davis

  Want, Fans, Incredibles

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• A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

  Russell Lynes

  Children, Successful, Parenting

  Russell Lynes (1991). “Life in the slow lane: observations on art, architecture, manners and other such spectator sports”, Harpercollins

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• Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

  James Brown

  Thankfulness, Christ, Said

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• I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.

  George Kennedy

  Has Beens, Fortunate

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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• I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Grateful, People, Appreciate

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