I Am Thankful Quotes

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Rose, Thorns

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• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Thankful

  "Positive Words, Powerful Results". Book by Hal Urban (p. 105), 2004.

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• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Good Morning, Strength, Thanksgiving

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• I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

  John Wooden

  Want, Used, Ought

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• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude

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• There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

  Ralph Blum

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Thank You, Teacher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Thanks are the highest form of thought.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  Dalai Lama

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

  Alice Walker

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

  Horace

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.25, Hachette UK

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  'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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• Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thank You

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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