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Short Gratitude Quotes

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Sallust

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

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude & Thankfulness Quotes

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

Steven Cojocaru

Inspirational Gratitude Quotes

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Elizabeth I

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

Jalal Talabani

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

William Bennett

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Frank Howard Clark

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.

Neil Innes

More Gratitude Quotes

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

William Hazlitt

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

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

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

John Steinbeck

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Jeff Miller

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Franz Grillparzer

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

William Feather

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

John McGahern

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Charles Lamb

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Felix Frankfurter

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

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

Izaak Walton

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.

Charles de Secondat

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 F. Halifax

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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

Alphonse Karr

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Doris Lessing

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

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

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

William Gilmore Simms

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Barbara Boxer

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Robert Fitzgerald

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

We want only loyal workers who are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for the bread which we let them earn.

Gustav Krupp

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

W. Clement Stone

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

Michael Newdow

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Ramstad

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Edward Gibbon

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

Paul Cellucci

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Boris Pasternak

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

Mark Shields

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Marya Mannes

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

Christopher Durang

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Orson Scott Card

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Penelope Lively

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Peter Straub

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