GRATITUDE QUOTES II

quotations about gratitude

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

GUILLAUME MASSIEU

attributed, Day's Collacon


And because gratitude is a form of joy, certainly we can give God not only our gratitude but also our praise, that his glory should be sufficient for our life and our joy.

ARTHUR C. MCGILL

Dying Unto Life


Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

THICH NHAT HANH

Peace Is Every Step

Tags: Thich Nhat Hanh


Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.

OVID

Amorum

Tags: Ovid


No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

AESOP

"The Ant and the Dove", Aesop's Fables

Tags: Aesop


Gratitude is a right estimate of our relationship to God, to others, and to life itself, because gratitude is the recognition that no one is a solitary achiever, no one has accumulated success or wealth unaided. Every human being is a debtor.

J. ELLSWORTH KALAS

Longing to Pray


Gratitude is a motivator of altruistic action, according to Aquinas, because it entails thanking one's benefactors and generating a fitting and appropriate response.

ROBERT A. EMMONS

introduction, The Psychology of Gratitude


As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

SENECA

Morals

Tags: Seneca


He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Reverence for Life

Tags: Albert Schweitzer


It seems somewhat odd, though, to suggest that gratitude is a moral duty because it appears to be of a different category than, say, the moral duty to tell the truth. Truth telling is an action originating in the speaker. Like gratitude, it requires another person (unless we think of telling oneself the truth as a moral duty). But unlike truth telling, gratitude involves not an overt but merely a subjective disposition. One can be grateful and do nothing (although gratitude can and often does imply some notion of reciprocity).

MARK T. MITCHELL

The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place & Community in a Global Age


Grateful persons resemble fertile fields, which always repay more than they receive.

JAMES CORNWELL

The Young Composer


Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

DAN BUETTNER

Thrive


Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C. S. LEWIS

The Screwtape Letters

Tags: C. S. Lewis


A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

Tags: John Milton


Gratitude is a painful pleasure, felt and expressed by none but noble souls.

L. C. JUDSON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.

MAYA ANGELOU

Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

Tags: Maya Angelou


To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Mary Marston

Tags: George MacDonald


The gratitude of most men is only a secret desire to receive more favours.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

Tags: Francois de La Rochefoucauld


That man is most blessed, who receives his daily bread with gratitude and thankfulness from the hand of God; and he who does so, experiences a pleasure that exceeds description.

DAVID KALAKAUA

attributed, Day's Collacon