Thankful Gratitude Quotes

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Positive, Thank You, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Wilson Mizner

Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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Whatever you are waiting for-peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of Simple Abundance-it will surely come, but only when you are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Plato

Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Alice Walker

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

"The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, 2006.

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thankful, Gratitude, Secret

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Elie Wiesel

Gratitude, Grateful, Missing

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

Inspirational, Thank You, Wise

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

"How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

William Arthur Ward

Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

Inspirational, Motivational, Gratitude

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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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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