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

  Alfred Agache

  Motivational, 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 often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

  Norman Rockwell

  Appreciation, Tired, Curious

  Norman Rockwell, Maureen Hart Hennessey, Anne Knutson, High Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge (1999). “Norman Rockwell: pictures for the American people”, Harry N. Abrams

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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