Thankfulness Quotes - Page 9

• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  I Am Thankful, Admire, I Can

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• When I close my eyes at night I'm able to go to bed with a heart full of gratitude. When I wake up in the morning my heart is full with thankfulness and peace. I don't know what tomorrow will hold, but I do know I will live each day to the fullest.

  Lizzie Velasquez

  Gratitude, Morning, Eye

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Theodore Roosevelt (1920). “Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

  John Taylor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Flow

  John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”

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• There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

  Jim Rohn

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2015

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• Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Heart, Giving

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• I live in a space of thankfulness- And I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for the small things, and more thankful I become, the more my bounty increased, that's because what you focus on expands and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Space, Giving, Focus

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• Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.13, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No matter how small, a favor deserves thanks.

  Wes Fesler

  Favors, Matter, Thanks

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Father

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

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• A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

  Wes Fesler

  Heart, Half, Empty

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• My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Gratitude, Hero

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thanksgiving, Yesterday, Crystals

  Charles Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 2”, p.221, Lulu.com

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• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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• The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

  John Calvin

  Sacrifice, Tables, Sacred

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• Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).

  Dennis Prager

  Expectations, Each Day, Way

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• I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

  John Frusciante

  Real, Energy, Emotion

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• I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

  Brenda Lee

  Stars, Heart, Looks

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• But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

  Harry Anderson

  Wall, Very Thankful

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

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• The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

  Hilary Swank

  Baby, Boys, Dollars

  "'Million Dollar Baby' wins best picture". www.today.com. February 24, 2005.

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• I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

  Ralph Stanley

  Done, Proud, Accomplished

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• A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

  Michael Newdow

  Judging, Being Thankful, Constitution

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• And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.

  Trish Stratus

  Sides, Shows

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• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Party, Believe

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