Appreciation Quotes and Sayings

These appreciation quotes recognize the importance of expressing gratitude.

Life becomes more beautiful and simple when you learn to appreciate everyone for their good deeds. It is not just other humans; you can appreciate anything, like nature, unique circumstances, and life, for bestowing you with good things.

Appreciation is an effort to emphasize the importance of good deeds or words. You can appreciate anyone and for anything – even someone for just being there with you – as part of your life.

Here are some famous appreciation quotes that you will find valuable. Please share them with others.

Thank You Quotes

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
Shaun Hick

Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
Sonia Sotomayor

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash

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

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Buddha

Note: Many important religious sayings involve appreciation quotes. Counting one’s blessings seems to be a universal belief amongst nearly all religions.

Appreciate Quotations

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

A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given, and you will be promoted higher.
Israelmore Ayivor

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner, to value the land, be a sailor, and to long for freedom, get married!
Mehmet Murat ildan

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.
M.F. Moonzajer

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

… a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Abraham Maslow

Saying Thanks

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life, you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Kanye West

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
Mandy Hale

Teacher Appreciation Quotations

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Unknown

Appreciation Meme

If you can read this, thank a teacher.
American Proverb

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Helen Peters

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

You made my day

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you, my heart has no bottom.
Unknown

I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks…
William Shakespeare

A teacher plants the seeds of knowledge, sprinkles them with love, and patiently nurtures their growth to produce tomorrow’s dreams.
Unknown

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.
Dan Rather

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased.
Unknown

A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart.
Unknown

Showing Appreciation

Teachers plant seeds of knowledge that grow forever.
Unknown

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Traditional Saying

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero  to me.
Fred Rogers

There’s no one quite like a special teacher, and no teacher quite as special as you.
Unknown

Tip: Use these appreciation quotes as captions of photos for Instagram and Facebook to express your thanks to a friend.

Good Appreciation Sayings

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 want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
Virginia Satir

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

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Teacher Appreciation Meme

Appreciation Counts

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
Martha Beck

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

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

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful but the gratefulness that makes us happy.
Albert Clarke

Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
Louie Schwartzberg

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

You Mean So Much To Me

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph Blum

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other.
Michael Ian Black

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

Count Your Blessings

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

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

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

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thorton Wilder

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

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Anthony Robbins

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.
Meister Eckhart

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

A Thankful Heart

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Cicero

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. – is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg 

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Tecumseh

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity… it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer 

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle 

Enjoy The Little Things

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius 

Let us awaken and feel alive with joy and appreciation for the gift of this life. – . It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

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

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James

Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne

Let Us Be Grateful

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Henry Ward Beecher

Let us be grateful to the people that make us happy.
Marcel Proust

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Al Jarreau

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.
Michael Josephson

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom
Marcel Proust

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong

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

It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
Germany Kent

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

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