Gratitude Quotes - Page 5

Gratitude is one of the virtues of the noble man. It is the hallmark of a life lived well. It is a trademark of the righteous man. It is an attribute that significantly impacts on your personal happiness and how sound your relationship will be with others.

I'm grateful for past betrayals, heartaches, and challenges... I thought they were breaking me; but they were sculpting me.

Small wins and major victories are important because they encourage and inspire you to keep your faith and stay the course even when everything around you seems to be falling apart.

have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not only for the easy times, but for every experience that has made you who you are.

Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.

Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.

Decide on the future you want to experience, then find out the habits that will produce it and practice them daily.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows.

To live a successful life and make a difference in the world, you must continue to dream.

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others.

If someone treads on my hand accidentally, while trying to help me, the pain may be no less acute than if he treads on it in contemptuous disregard of my existence or with a malevolent wish to injure me. But I shall generally feel in the second case a kind and degree of resentment that I shall not feel in the first. If someone's actions help me to some benefit I desire, then I am benefited in any case; but if he intended them so to benefit me because of his general goodwill towards me, I shall reasonably feel a gratitude which I should not feel at all if the benefit was an accidental consequence unintended or even regretted by him, of some plan of action with a different aim.

Find Gratitude Happiness will follow you.

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith in the faithfulness at the heart of all things. It is the joy of gratefulness in touch with the fullness of life.

Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

Today is a beautiful day. Thank you!

Greatness is achieved when you fulfil your purpose by doing what you were born to do.

If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Inspiration is deeply personal. It’s your responsibility and no one else’s to inspire yourself.

You don’t choose your purpose, you simply discover it.

To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development.

A generous heart filled with gratitude is a magnet for abundance.

As long as we are grateful, we shall be glad.

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

The answers to all problems or issues is hidden in a question.

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

Hurry always empties a soul.

So thankful, so grateful.

Don’t celebrate your day because you get everything you want. Celebrate your day because you love and appreciate what you already have – the little things, the big things, the things that have come and gone, but most importantly those things yet to come.

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between stars.

Be grateful for every sacred breath.

When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.

Live each day with a grateful gratitude.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

Rain don't fall on a with if she doesn't want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.""Thankful for what?" said Tiffany."That I'll get dry later.

I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

Gratitude is the key to wealth and abundance, so learn to be grateful in all things.

Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.

The teachers of my life saved my life and sent me out prepared for whatever life I was meant to lead. Like everyone else, I had some bad ones and mediocre ones, but I never had one that I thought was holding me back because of idleness or thoughtlessness. They spent their lives with the likes of me and I felt safe during the time they spent with me. The best of them made me want to be just like them. I wanted young kids to look at me the way I looked at the teachers who loved me. Loving them was not difficult for a boy like me. They lit a path for me, and one that I followed with joy.

We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.

If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies.

She could go on asking herself why roses had thorns or she could be thankful that thorns had roses.

The joy of living is the gratitude of the moment.

There’s no secret to success, but if there were one, it would be that your decisions create your success or lack of it and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

In times of difficulty, take time out and seek support and encouragement.

Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.