Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
- Charles Spurgeon
Have an attitude of gratitude.
- Jim Harbaugh
I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.
- Mary Oliver
I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.
- Jennifer Lopez
Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.
- Roger Scruton
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
- Lauryn Hill
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
- Vivek Murthy
We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.
- Janet Reno
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
- Felix Frankfurter
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
- Roald Amundsen
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.
- Miranda Kerr
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
- Elena Kagan
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
- Philip Yancey
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
- Nancy Friday
It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.
- Tacitus
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
- David Petraeus
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
- Dennis Prager
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.
- Norman Foster
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
- William Bartram
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
- Patch Adams
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.
- Russell M. Nelson
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
- Edward Gibbon
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
- John Quincy Adams
Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.
- Marie Kondo
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
- Lucy Stone
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
- Roberto Benigni
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
- Kristin Armstrong
It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.
- Srikumar Rao
There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to the people.
- J. Jayalalithaa
I don't believe in gratitude.
- Ram Gopal Varma
The first thing I do after I wake up is a morning meditation. It's just as I awake and before I open my eyes. It's where I'm feeding my gratitude and the love in my heart and opening my heart. A good morning meditation is key. It lasts about 10 to 15 minutes. Then I get out of bed.
- Tony Gonzalez
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
- Sophocles
Happiness, for me, has to be real - life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends, walks in nature and woods, praying, feeling real gratitude, reading good books, being able to be in the moment and hearing the sounds of nature.
- Bhumika Chawla
I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.
- Shawn Michaels
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.
- Harvey Mackay
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
- Deborah Sampson
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
- Amy Chua
Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
- Joyce Brothers
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
- Queen Elizabeth II
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
- Konrad Lorenz
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Montesquieu
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
- Kiran Bedi
When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
- Bernie Siegel
The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
- Gary Zukav
As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.
- Tim Murphy
When I hear Donald Trump say the American military is a disaster, I want to go through the screen and shake the guy. We ought to have a commander in chief who talks about our troops with respect and gratitude.
- Tim Kaine
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
- Thomas Erskine
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
- Dave Obey
When I go to the Philippines, I would like to take the time to express my gratitude by meeting with my Filipino fans first.
- Hyun Bin
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely
I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
- Imelda Marcos
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
- Radhanath Swami
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously.
- Debbie Ford
I always start my day with two things that really ground me. One is a book of daily inspirational readings called 'The Book of Awakening.' Basically, it talks about having the life you want and being present in the life you have. I also write three things I'm grateful for in a gratitude journal.
- Cynthia Germanotta
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
- Loretta Young
What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.
- Thomas S. Monson
I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
- Kate Hudson
Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.
- Jason Reynolds
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
- Evelyn Underhill
Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
- Peter Marshall
David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.
- Angela Bowie
As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
- Victoria Osteen
I think the three words that describe my journey are gratitude, original and always being focused.
- Harnaaz Sandhu
For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.
- Jim Mattis
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
- Sadhu Vaswani
I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.
- Ray Comfort
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
- Jennifer Granholm
What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.
- Deborah Norville
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
- John Ortberg
Whether you're saying 'thank you' to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.
- Charles Best
Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
- Chip Conley
Gratitude is important. One has to look beyond oneself to see that while there may be people who are far better off, one has been given so much more than so many.
- Rhea Pillai
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
- Elie Wiesel
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
- Samuel Johnson
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.
- Susan L. Taylor
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.
- Eliot Engel
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
- Marya Mannes
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
- Allen Boyd
When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.
- Trudie Styler
I walk in a space of gratitude. I'm so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do what I love.
- Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
- John Doolittle
The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
- Nancy Sinatra
I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
- Kurt Sutter
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
- Kristin Armstrong
I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?
- Danny Brown
I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps that's my only way to become specific.
- Arnaud Desplechin
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
- David A. Bednar
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
- Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.
- Moa Kikuchi
When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
- Simon Mainwaring
Serving as a police officer is the toughest job in our country. As they put themselves on the line to keep us safe, they deserve our gratitude and support.
- William Barr