Be Grateful Quotes - Page 17

• We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?

  Robert D. Hales

  Rain, Grateful, Thinking

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• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Wedding, Grateful, Writing

  "U.K. Appoints First Female Poet Laureate". www.foxnews.com. May 01, 2009.

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• Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to be grateful for what is, and if we live long enough and deep enough and authentically enough, gratitude becomes a way of life.

  Mark Nepo

  Gratitude, Grateful, Long

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• Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grateful, Race, Insulting

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides".

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• I'll always be grateful for the dream season of 1986. In a corner of my mind I will stand forever with my bat cocked, waiting for the two-one pitch from Calvin Schiraldi.

  Gary Carter

  Dream, Grateful, Two

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• One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

  Charles Kelley

  Thanksgiving, Morning, Brother

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• Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Success, Thankful

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• Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Sky, Earth

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Grateful

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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, Thankfulness

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

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• The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Morning, Grateful, Giving

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• A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful.

  Hayden Carruth

  Grateful, Expression, I Have Learned

  Hayden Carruth (1989). “Tell Me Again how the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?

  Emmet Fox

  Grateful, Successful, Hard Times

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• You can tell a person, not by what they say they are gratitude for, but how they respect what they claim to be grateful for.

  Davina Veronica

  Gratitude, Honesty, Grateful

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• Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Dream, Grateful

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• Be grateful for blessings,
  Don't ever change, keep your essence.
  The power is in the people and politics we address.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Grateful, Blessing

  Song: Me Against the World, Album: Me Against the World

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• With all this extra stressin
  The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
  When will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression
  they punish the people that's askin questions
  And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions
  The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons
  Don't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions
  Be grateful for blessings
  Don't ever change, keep your essence
  The power is in the people and politics we address.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Grateful, Blessing

  Song: Me Against The World

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• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thanksgiving, Peace, Years

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Gratitude, Powerful, Grateful

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• Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  Daniel Craig

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Sexy

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• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

  Thomas Merton

  Faith, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Grateful, Men

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• Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

  Alfred Bester

  Grateful, Passion, Men

  Alfred Bester (1978). “Demolished Man”, Pocket

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• Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.

  Eoin Colfer

  Grateful, Trying, Auras

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, p.189, Hachette UK

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