Quotes about Thankfulness
One cannot be a good person without gratitude, and one cannot be a happy person without gratitude. This provides a vital link between goodness and happiness.
- Dennis Prager
If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.
- Dennis Prager
Most people, like the Israelites, complain far more often than they express gratitude. People frequently register a complaint with a manufacturer or service provider, but they rarely write a note of thanks for a job well done. We would all do well to consider writing a thank you note each time we write a letter of complaint. Similarly, and more importantly, too many people criticize their spouses more often than they compliment them. That is the road to an unhappy marriage.
- Dennis Prager
Gratitude must be constantly fed (unlike resentment, which lives on naturally), and physical reminders are essential.
- Dennis Prager
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.
- Desmond Tutu
Lord, everywhere I look I see signs of how great You are. Thank You for Your amazing creation, including me!
- Louie Giglio
Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.
- John Bunyan
Then that scripture gave me hope, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Heb. xiii. 5. 'O Lord,' said I, but I have left Thee. Then it answered again, But I will not leave thee. For this I thanked God also.
- John Bunyan
So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.
- John Bunyan
A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;
- John Maxwell
Forget your inconveniences, but remember your blessings.
- John Maxwell
Silent gratitude isn't much good to anyone.
- John Maxwell