Appreciation Quotes - Page 12

• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• This morning take a few minutes to reflect on how you give of yourself to the world. Often we get caught up in the frenzy of buying and giving things. Look at the ways you give appreciation, friendship, energy, time, love, and affection, and give of your own special talents and abilities throughout the year. Acknowledge yourself for having enriched the lives of others. Spend some time loving yourself for the giving light that you are.

  Shakti Gawain

  Morning, Loving Yourself, Years

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

  Isaac Barrow

  Excellence, Opinion, Should

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• There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

  Hunter Tylo

  Whole

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• Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

  Martha Beck

  Fear, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Reasons to feel good about the future" by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2008.

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• But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

  William Feather

  Life, Thank You, Kindness

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• You always admire what you really don't understand.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Fake People, Struggle

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• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Opportunity, Normalcy

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

  Alice Walker

  Thank You, Gratitude, Thinking

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Believe, Winning

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• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Greatness, Self, Great Ones

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• Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Two, Democracy, Proud

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• The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

  Marianne Williamson

  Gratitude, Jesus, Lying

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• I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

  Johnny Cash

  Sea Breeze, Scent, Sun

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• This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

  Albert Claude

  Mother, Agony, Medicine

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• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Mean, Fighting

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• You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Shining, May, Action

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• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Sunset, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

  Abraham Cowley

  Blame, Praise

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• When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when you are applauding, when you are joyous, when you are feeling that feeling of appreciation pulsing through you, in those times, there IS NO RESISTANCE within you. You are, in those moments, vibrationally up to speed with who you really are.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciate, Laughing, Joy

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• The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  College, Issues, Tasks

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

  John Baldacci

  People, World, Want

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