Debt Of Gratitude Quotes

• America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

  Allen Boyd

  Gratitude, Blessed, Fighting

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• The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

  Steve Buyer

  Gratitude, Veterans Day, War

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• True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always doing your utmost to repay debts of gratitude. Such people radiate integrity, depth of character, bigheartedness and charm.

  Josei Toda

  Gratitude, Integrity, Character

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• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mother, Gratitude

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• A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

  Ruth Benedict

  Gratitude, Jobs, Men

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 3, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2005). “Elective Affinities”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

  Eliot Engel

  Gratitude, Kings, Commitment

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• Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

  Bobby Hull

  Gratitude, Athlete, Play

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• Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Grateful, Debt

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• Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

  Jim Ramstad

  Gratitude, Important, Debt

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Christian, Gratitude, Race

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

  Frank Knox

  Gratitude, War, Army

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• No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

  Josef Pieper

  Gratitude, Feelings, Elements

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• true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Gratitude, Debt

  William Wilberforce, Kevin Belmonte, Garth M. Rosell, Charles Colson (2006). “A Practical View of Christianity”, p.255, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

  William J. Clinton

  Gratitude, Safety, Liberty

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• The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

  Steven Spielberg

  Baby, Gratitude, Giving

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• We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who serve or have served in our countrys military, as well as to the families of those individuals. Whether protecting our freedoms in foreign fields or making contributions here at home, the value these men and women bring to the American workforce and our way of life is beyond measure.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Gratitude, Military, Home

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• I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Gratitude, Responsibility, Debt

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• What a noble gift to man are the Forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Gratitude, Fall, Men

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1850). “Rural Hours”, p.202

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• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  Gary Ross

  Gratitude, Book, Kids

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• Care for him who shall have borne the battle

  Abraham Lincoln

  Widows And Orphans, Civil War, Battle

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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