Quotes about Appreciation

Joy is everywhere. You just have to recognize it.

She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I'd see.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

The obligation falls upon us to foster in ourselves the sensibilities that modernity has suppressed or even denigrated. ... Without awe, our lives are impoverished, our society decays.

Our future depends upon our appreciation of the reality of the inner life, of the splendor of thought, of the dignity of wonder and reverence. This is the most important thought: God has a stake in the life of man, of every man. But this idea cannot be imposed from without; it must be discovered by every man; it cannot be preached, it must be experienced.

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.