Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Gratitude

• 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.

• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Gratitude, Children

• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

• 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.

• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Appreciation, Gratitude

• Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Gratitude, Taken

• The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving

• Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thankful

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

• The test of happiness is gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Gratitude, Tests

• The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

• Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Duty, Difficult

• Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Men, Joyful

• The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weed, Gratitude, Appreciation

• Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Grateful, Thank You God

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