Gratitude Quotes - Page 13

• Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.

  Alan Cohen

  Faith, Stronger, Use

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• Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Happiness, Thanksgiving

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• Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

  Terry Taylor

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Crazy

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Grateful, Way To Live, Be Kind

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• We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

  Michelle Obama

  Teacher, School, Humility

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Grateful, Discipline

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Memories, Being Thankful, Joy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

  Oren Arnold

  Loyalty, Children, Men

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• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Thank You, Wisdom, Revenge

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.374, e-artnow

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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Appreciation

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Debt, Kind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”

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• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Children, Grateful

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• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

  Henry Clay

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

  Michael Josephson

  Grateful, Blessing, Being Thankful

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• ... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Appreciation

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.33, e-artnow

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• The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Voice, Stills, Small Voice

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Memories, Good Memories, Worldly Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Appreciation, Soul, Rope

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

  William Safire

  Appreciation, Knowing, Delight

  William Safire (1988). “Coming to terms”, Doubleday

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• Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Charity, Made, Chains

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• Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

  Joseph Stalin

  Dog, Inspirational Christmas, Sickness

  "he Memoirs of former Stalin's secretary" by Boris Bazhanov, Saint Petersburg, 1992.

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• Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

  Debbie Macomber

  Attitude, Generosity, Collaboration

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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  One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Change, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.24, Open Road Media

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