Quotes about Thankfulness

We bring a smile to God's face when we express thanks for what we have instead of complaining because we don't have the latest version of a toy we want. We give God joy when we take care of what He has loaned us instead of trashing things.

Yes, there is a "secret to happiness"—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

There is no lack of things to be grateful for if you remember to pay attention.

Wake up in the morning and declare what it is that you'll celebrate today. Even better, write it down. Celebrate all of it—the good, the bad, the not yet happened; the key is that you truly rejoice in the feeling of gratitude for everything.

You are practically powerless without gratitude—

Get practiced at making gratitude your go-to, notice the eight trillion things around you at all times that you can be grateful for, and feel into the grateful expectation for all the things coming your way.

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

When you appreciate something and you're grateful for it - like going in to work everyday or just your partner or your job - you just do it that much better because you're lucky that you're doing it.

delighting in what we have been given.

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.