Thankfulness Quotes - Page 12

• I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Thank You, Thinking, Years

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• He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

  Thomas Secker

  Littles, Enjoy, Enjoyment

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• Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

  "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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• We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

  George Carlin

  Thanksgiving, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  God, Thankful, Christian

  Samuel Logan Brengle (2013). “Take Time to Be Holy: 365 Daily Inspirations to Bring You Closer to God”, p.328, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  Ralph Stanley

  Long, Legends, Enough

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Gratitude, Jobs, Struggle

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• For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

  Mark Harmon

  Opportunity, Mess, Direct

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• This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

  Susan Dey

  Kids, Looks, Littles

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

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• Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Gratitude, Needs, Worship

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.

  Billy Graham

  Opportunity, Hands, Ability

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• Thankfulness
  can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
  are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
  circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be
  relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
  dissatisfied.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

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• I would like to thank my coach for believing in me.

  Carlos Tevez

  Believe, Coaches

  "Argentina's footballers claim gold". www.cnn.com. August 28, 2004.

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• Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thank God, Release

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• I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

  Alberto Manguel

  Mother, Attachment, Giving

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• Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Looks, Look Up

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “To Life's Pilgrim”

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• Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Attitude, Humble

  Twitter post from Feb 28, 2014

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• I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Gratitude, Grateful, Justice

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• Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
  forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
  the absence of profound thankfulness.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Butterfly, Profound

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

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• Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expression

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.34, Conari Press

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Missionary, Lord

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