Gratitude Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Lionel Blue

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Ken Kesey

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Bill Vaughan

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

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

Gordon Getty

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Baltasar Gracian

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

A. R. Ammons

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

John Milton

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

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.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

John Hume

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Philip Stanhope

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Kathy Acker

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

Philip Schaff

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

Christopher Durang

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

Gerard Arpey

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

Steven Cojocaru

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

Jan Schakowsky

But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

Paul Cellucci

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.

George Wald

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

James A. Lovell

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

Theodor Herzl

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

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Steve Buyer

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

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

Sydney Carter

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

Clayton Christensen