Top 50 Thankful Quotes


Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Maya Angelou


Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

John F. Kennedy

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart


Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

William Arthur Ward


Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain


I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

Reba McEntire



Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelo

When you give and carry out acts of kindness, it’s as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero


The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher


Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Melody Beattie


Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

Dan Buettner


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

W.T. Purkiser

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh


At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer



I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie


Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Garrison Keillor

Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwab

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

W. Clement Stone


None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Melody Beattie

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith



Sometimes the little things in life mean the most.

Ellen Hopkins

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.

Zig Ziglar


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson


The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

Robert Fulghum


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

It is always better to look at the bright side of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita


There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?

Israelmore Ayivor


If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Frank A. Clark

When we think of all the beatitudes in life, our heart shall be merry.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

John Clayton

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Henri Nouwen


I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

Elayne Boosler

We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

Epictetus

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have—life itself.

Walter Anderson

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