Thankfulness Quotes - Page 9

• Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

  Horace

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

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• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

  N.D. Wilson

  Wine, Wind, Rivers

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forgiveness, Enemy, Able

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• A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Family, Happiness, Home

  Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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• No matter how small, a favor deserves thanks.

  Wes Fesler

  Favors, Matter, Thanks

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• Joy untouched by thankfulness is always suspect.

  Theodor Haecker

  Joy, Suspects

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• I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, People, Made

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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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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• There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.

  Vernon Lee

  Eye, Good Luck, Mean

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• ...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

  Richard Pryor

  Movie, Missing, Being Thankful

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• My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Next, Firsts

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• I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

  James Taylor

  Showing Up, Enough, Without You

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• I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

  Felicity Huffman

  Kissing, Glasses, Years

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• I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christ, Obedience, No Hope

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• Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

  Billy Sheehan

  Nice, Critical, Honored

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