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

  Alfred Agache

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  People, Pay, Patient

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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 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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• 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

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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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 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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• 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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• The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

  Herb Ritts

  Thinking, Europe, United States

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• No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Soon Enough, Office

  "No Charges for Scott Stapp's Public Drunkenness at Airport". www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2006.

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• As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

  Melissa Bean

  Impact, House, Mind Your Own Business

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• You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.

  Mindy Cohn

  Grateful, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

  Al Green

  United States, Pakistan, Allies

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• A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

  Harvey Mackay

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

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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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