Gratitude Quotes

"Faith is the foundation of a virtuous life."

"Gratitude is the foundation of character."

"In benefits, the giver should forget and the receiver remember."

"Praise is the inner health made audible."

"My early life was a series of struggles, but I am grateful for them, for they taught me to appreciate the value of persistence."

"If you and I don’t tell our families and friends how much we appreciate them, how can we expect them to be grateful?"

"Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. No day will have been wholly misspent, if one sincere, thoughtful page has been written. Let the daily tide leave some deposit on these pages, as it leaves sand and shells on the shore. So much increase of terra firma. this may be a calendar of the ebbs and flows of the soul; and on these sheets as a beach, the waves may cast up pearls and seaweed. July 6, 1840"

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."

"While a man's father is alive, look at the bent of his will; when his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years he does not alter from the way of his father, he may be called filial."

"It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet."

"Greatness is not a destination; it's a practice."

"A benefit should be given with the same spirit it is received."

"Thanksgiving is the natural response to grace."

"My mother was an inventor of the first order and would, I believe, have achieved great things had she not been so remote from modern life and its opportunities."

"Instead of worrying about ingratitude, let’s expect it. Let’s remember that Jesus healed ten lepers in one day—and only one thanked Him."

"Life is a short pause between two great mysteries."

"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity."

"Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?"

"From my mother, I learned piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts."

"Stillness is impossible without a heart full of gratitude."

"A benefit is not a benefit unless it is given with a good will."

"We are far too easily pleased."

"I am grateful for the challenges that forced me to innovate and find new ways to harness the power of nature."

"Ingratitude is as natural as weeds. Gratitude is like a rose. It has to be fed, watered and cultivated, loved and protected."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity."

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

"Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, 'Is not Reciprocity such a word?'"

"He who is content with his lot and the portion assigned to him is a happy man."

"To be grateful for the present moment is to be truly alive."

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

"Every joy is a gift from God."

"What one person calls God, another calls the laws of physics; they are different languages for the same universal truths."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."