Taking Things For Granted Quotes

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

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• 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

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• We tend to take things for granted that we've had for long periods of time. Take a moment to appreciate the person in your life. Realize why you are with them. Take a moment with them and really be in that moment completely.

  Pandora Boxx

  Long, Appreciate, Realizing

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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• One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

  Chris LeDoux

  Thinking, Appreciate, Joy

  FaceBook post by Chris LeDoux from Mar 10, 2016

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• It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

  David Hackworth

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Doors

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• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Reflect upon your present blessings

  Charles Dickens

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.211

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• Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Children, Drinking, Years

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• Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

  Ana Monnar

  Ungrateful People, Forget, Grateful

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• Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Change, Life Changing, Taken For Granted

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• I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

  Robin Gibb

  Long, World, Wonder

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grateful, Waiting, Feelings

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• It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

  Adrien Brody

  Loneliness, Loss, People

  "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• I never take things for granted. I always look to help out me teammates, to win and be better.

  Albert Pujols

  Winning, Looks, Teammate

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• Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long
  as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is
  the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Keys, Long

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in "Harper's Magazine", Entry (1951), July 2005.

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