61 Quotes Dedicated to the Beauty of Gratefulness and Gratitude

 

Name three things for which you are grateful.

Are you grateful for past experiences that have made you a stronger and better person? Are you grateful for the sunrise and great friends? Are you grateful for all good things – past and present?

Today, take time to celebrate the beauty of gratefulness and gratitude.

Show gratitude to the people who have stood by you. Celebrate those who have unselfishly shared their wisdom with the world.

Celebrate the good things in your life, no matter how small.

Let these quotes remind you of the power of gratitude.

Quotes About Gratefulness and Gratitude

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude. ~ Carole King

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. ~ Ralph H. Blum

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. ~ Jacques Maritain

The root of joy is gratefulness. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ~ Karl Barth

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? ~ George Eliot

My socks may not match, but my feet are always warm. ~ Maureen McCullough

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. ~ Eckhart Tolle

...stretch yourself beyond the great stuff right in front of you. Opening your eyes to more of the world around you can deeply enhance your gratitude practice. ~ Derrick Carpenter

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. ~ Charles Schwab

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~ Victor Hugo

Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone. ~ Gladys Bronwyn Stern

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. ~ Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. ~ Roberto Benigni

Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. ~ Rhonda Byrne

Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy. ~ Sara Avant Stover

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere. ~ Emmanuel Dagher

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. ~ Kristin Armstrong

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude. ~ Bruce Wilkinson

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. ~ Randy Pausch

Gratitude unlocks all that’s blocking us from really feeling truthful, really feeling authentic and vulnerable and happy. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. ~ Steve Maraboli

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. ~ Alan Cohen

If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. ~ Alan Cohen

To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. ~ Alan Cohen

This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything. ~ Alan Cohen

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace. ~ Arianna Huffington

We can choose to be grateful no matter what. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. ~ Maya Angelou

Ingratitude is the daughter of pride. ~ Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Stop now. Enjoy the moment. It’s now or never. ~ Anonymous

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~ Jean-Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings. ~ Marianne Williamson

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion. ~ Loretta Young

Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~ Thomas Fuller

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~ James Allen

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude. And once gratitude is gone, everything becomes about you. ~ Adam Kirk Smith

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ~ Rumi

No blessing lasts forever. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. ~ John Dryden

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ~ W. Clement Stone

All should unite to punish the ungrateful. Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ~ James Thomson

When you are thankful or you feel appreciation, you are in the ultimate state to receive. When you embrace gratitude, your body as the unconscious mind will begin to believe it is in that future reality in the present moment. ~ Joe Dispenza

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. ~ William Blake

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~ Eric Hoffer

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy – because we will always want to have something else or something more. ~ David Steindl-Rast

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. ~ Eileen Caddy

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfillment. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. ~ Naomi Williams

In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell

Embrace your life journey with gratitude, so that how you travel your path is more important than reaching your ultimate destination. ~ Rosalene Glickman

Gratitude holds us together even as we’re falling apart. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. ~ Maya Angelou

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~ Johannes A. Gaertner

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

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