Gratitude Quotes | Grateful Quotations

Our collection of gratitude quotes will having you counting your blessing and giving thanks.

Gratitude Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude is one of the most beautiful feelings, and it is important to express it in a meaningful way. People and things come and go in your lives, and you wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to say thanks. You should be thankful to everyone and everything that’s made it a life to enjoy. Even the smallest of ‘thanks’ can be a great gesture for those who do things for your benefit.

If you are looking for some beautiful inspiration for saying thanks to anyone around you or to life itself, these famous sayings will help strengthen your feelings of gratitude.

Quotes about Gratitude

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Painter
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James
Opening your eyes to more of the world around you can deeply enhance your gratitude practice.
Derrick Carpenter

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Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Author Unknown
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
Zig Ziglar
Thanks cost nothing.
Creole
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 Angelou
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Cicero
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward

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Great Gratitude Quotes

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern
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
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
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
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
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Plato

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There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Robert Brault
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!
George Herbert
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Northrup Christiane
Gratitude is the best attitude.
Author unknown
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.
Author Unknown
Sometimes its the ones we owe the most that we thank the least.
Andy Atticus
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
Demonstrate gratitude for the simple things in life. Show your child that you are a person who is truly grateful for the simple, good things in life: a sunset, rain, insects, birds, children laughing, or a kind gesture…. Appreciative people are happy; they see the beauty in life while others miss it.
Richard Carlson

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Bible Quotes on Saying Thanks

O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His loving kindness is everlasting.
Chronicles 16:34
It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
Samuel 9:1
They are to stand every morning to thank and to praise the LORD, and likewise at evening,
Colossians 3:17
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!
Psalm 50:23
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:28
Enter His gates with thanksgiving, And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name.
Psalm 100:4
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:3

Funny Gratitude Quotes

If you can’t be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Author unknown
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Buddha
Don’t overload Gratitude; if you do, she’ll kick.
American proverb
I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey
If you really want your friends to remember you, give them something cheap.
Anonymous
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Bill Vaughn
I want to say thank you to all the people who walked into my life and made it outstanding, and all the people who walked out of my life and made it fantastic.
Author unknown
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
Ethel Watts Mumford

Top Grateful Quotes and Sayings

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Gratitude is the state of mind of thankfulness. As it is cultivated, we experience an increase in our sympathetic joy, our happiness at another’s happiness. Just as in the cultivation of compassion, we may feel the pain of others, so we may begin to feel their joy as well. And it doesn’t stop there.
Stephen Levine
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

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55 Great Gratitude Quotes