Grateful Quotes - Page 18

• It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Adversity, Victory

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• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

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• For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thank You, Gratitude, Heart

  O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

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• Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Thankful, Gratitude, Character

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude

  James Arthur Ray

  Thankful, Gratitude, Morning

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• I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Real, House

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.300, University of Iowa Press

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• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Cutting, Blessing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Nature, Affection

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

  Joseph Hopkinson

  4th Of July, Sky, Independence

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

  George Washington

  Bible, Thanksgiving, God

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

  Doris Day

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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

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• I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love You, Thoughtful

  "6 Maya Angelou Quotes About Love to Incorporate Into Your Wedding" by Kim Fusaro, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

  Srikumar Rao

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Nice, Men, Be Kind

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

  Anton Yelchin

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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• The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Business, Believe

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• The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

  Thomas Merton

  Gratitude, Differences, Hearsay

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

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• ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.

  Matthew Henry

  Gratitude

  Matthew Henry (1825). “The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.: With Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry”, p.236

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• One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Adversity, Blessing

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• I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Taken, Style

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• Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

  E. W. Howe

  Appreciation, Men, Reality

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• It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

  Albert Einstein

  Sorry, Thoughtful, Punishment

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• I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

  Reginald Farrer

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Reginald Farrer (1973). “In a Yorkshire Garden”

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• Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Thankful, Appreciation

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2015

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• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Tombstone

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