Thankful Gratitude Quotes - Page 4

• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Thanks are justly due for boons unbought

  Ovid

  Thankful, Gratitude, Thanks

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• We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

  Seneca the Elder

  Life, Gratitude, Money

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• If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

  John Wayne

  Being Thankful, Thankfulness, Thankful For What You Have

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• The still small voice of gratitude.

  Thomas Gray

  Gratitude, Voice, Stills

  "Ode for Music" l. 61 (1769)

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• How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

  John Templeton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Children

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

  Maya Angelou

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.11, Bantam

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• This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

  Maya Angelou

  Attitude, Grateful, Wonderful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 16, 2010

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• A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Prayer

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ernest Bell, Andrew Moore (2009). “Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune”, p.34, Mondial

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• Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

  William Bennett

  Thankful, Gratitude, Needs

  William J. Bennett (1995). “Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thankful, Gratitude, Freedom

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Loyalty, Encouragement, Gratitude

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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• There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

  Robert Breault

  Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

  George Canning

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

  George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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• No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Night, Thankfulness

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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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