Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
- Oprah Winfrey
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Kahlil Gibran
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
- Doris Day
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
- G. K. Chesterton
Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.
- Marietta McCarty
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
- Marc Estrin
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melodie Beattie
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
- Albert Schweitzer
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
- Eric Hoffer
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
- Cicero
