Gratitude Quotes - Page 19

• A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Needs, Courtesy

  Ben Jonson (1995). “Poetaster”, p.62, Manchester University Press

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• Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Memories, Lying, Passion

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Daughter, Justice, Flow

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

  Judith Martin

  Procrastination, Waiting, Thanks

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love Is, Allies, Debt

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• Humility and gratitude go hand in hand... Awareness increases so that we become grateful for everything we are given. We have to learn, literally learn, to be grateful for what we receive day by day, simply to balance the criticism that day by day we voice because of powerful emotions.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Powerful, Grateful

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• We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

  William J. Clinton

  Spiritual, Determination, Lying

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• Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Joy, Soil, Thrive

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.436

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• I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Gratitude turns negative energy into positive energy. There is no situation or circumstance so small or large that it is not susceptible to gratitude's power.

  Melody Beattie

  Positive Energy, Negative, Circumstances

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Distance

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• There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Grateful, Law, Opposites

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year.

  James A. Murphy III

  Memories, Holiday, Caring

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• Even our most difficult moments bring us gifts. The trick, of course, is gratitude. Therein will you find both your peace and your joy.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Joy, Moments, Tricks

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 03, 2017

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• Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

  Jim Rohn

  Positive, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Way, Wonderful

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• The suckling relationship is one of the sources of real sweetness that we have in human existence...The suckling baby can teach adults about the expression of sweet love and gratitude in a way no words can.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Sweet, Real

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• Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

  Mindy Kaling

  Emotion, Closest

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• Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Give Me

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Men, Giving, Ballots

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

  Max Lerner

  Mean, Teeth, Flags

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• Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

  Tacitus

  Thinking, Long, Hatred

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.132, Modern Library

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• Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

  Sophocles

  Flow, Deceiver, Alas

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• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  Patricia Briggs

  Please Me, Play, Want

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• God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

  Robert Creeley

  Giving, Form, Pardon

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.186, Univ of California Press

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