GRATITUDE QUOTES

quotations about gratitude

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts

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Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

STEVE MARABOLI

Life


Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

A. A. MILNE

Winnie-the-Pooh

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Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

EPICURUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.

ACHILLES POINCELOT

attributed, Day's Collacon


When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Empire

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. While its opponent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only poisonous in itself but impregnating the very atmosphere in which it grows, with fetid vapors.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought

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Gratitude is a substitute for the countergift, the promise of a return that would not be a return, that is, the promise of further, commensurate gifts.... It vows future action based on imagination and reflection, not automatic equivalence.

STEPHEN H. WEBB

The Gifting God


A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING

Minna Von Barnhelm


Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus at Colonus

Tags: Sophocles


I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -- only a sense of existence.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

letter to Harrison Blake, December 6, 1853

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

MARCEL PROUST

Pleasures and Days

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Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

ALEXANDER POPE

Thoughts on Various Subjects

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There is a selfishness even in gratitude when it is too profuse; to be over-thankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another.

RICHARD JUN CUMBERLAND

What Next?


Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

JOHN ORTBERG

When the Game Is Over

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Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.

ROY T. BENNETT

The Light in the Heart