Thank You Memes, Quotes, Sayings
Saying “thank you” is a win-win. The object of your gratitude feels good about being acknowledged, and you feel better for expressing your appreciation.
Generally speaking, everyone has so much to be thankful for another day on earth, the acts of kindness of friends and family, and the other blessings in your life.
To help communicate your gratefulness, we’ve collected some favorite thank-you memes, quotes, images, and sayings for you. Please have a spin-through. See if anything strikes your fancy for a card, a note, a social media post, or communication in person.
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Best Thank You Quotes and Memes
1.) The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for.
Unknown
2.) God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
William Arthur Ward
3.) Thank you for being the reason I smile.
Unknown
4.) When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
5.) You put the “You” in Thank You!
Unknown
6.) Start each day with a grateful heart.
Unknown
Nice Thank You Memes
This is one of those thank you memes that is a good reminder to us all.
Appreciation Meme
Good Thank You Meme
These thank-you images remind us all of the importance of expressing our gratitude to those who have helped us along our journey.
Good Thank You Quotes
7.) He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
8.) Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
Dennis Prager
9.) All our discontent about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
Daniel Defoe
10.) Be thankful for your problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Jim Lovell
Thank You Advance Video
Short Words of Appreciation
11.) God has two dwellings, one in heaven and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton
12.) Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
Roy Bennett
13.) The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
14.) A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
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Be Thankful Card Openings
15.) We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
Albert Barnes
16.) Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
David O. McKay
17.) 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
18.) It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
Unknown
Tip: These thank you images and thank you memes work great on social media for events like saying thanks for happy birthday greetings, Mother’s Day wishes, and other kind messages. Your friends and family will appreciate the gesture.
Thank You Memes: Marcel Prouse
The simple message in thank you memes like this strikes home in nearly every situation.
Expressing Your Gratitude
19.) Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
20.) 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
21.) The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.
Robert Holden
22.) Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
23.) Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24.) Have an attitude of gratitude.
Thomas S. Monson
Good Thank You Quotes
25.) Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
26.) Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.
Napoleon Hill
27.) Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
28.) Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy.
Sara Avant Stover
29.) I may not be where I want to be, but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be.
Habeeb Akande
Thank You Memes: Gratitude
Many Thanks Quotations
30.) 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
31.) When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out, and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong
32.) Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Cicero
33.) Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu
34.) Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Melody Beattie
35.) 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
36.) Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
37.) Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
38.) What you truly acknowledge truly is yours. Invite your heart to be grateful, and your thank yous will be heard even when you don’t use words.
Unknown
Saying Thank You in Spanish, French, German, and Other Languages
- Thank You in Spanish — Gracias; Gratitude is gratitude.
- French — Je vous remercie.
- Italian — Grazie.
- Japanese — ありがとうございました
- German — Danke.
- Arabic — shuykraan.
- Irish — go raibh maith agat.
- Korean — 고맙습니다
- Latin — gratias tibi.
- Russian — Спасибо.
- Chinese — 谢谢
- Portuguese — obrigado.
- Greek — ευχαριστώ
- Polish — Dziękuję Ci
- Swedish- tack.
Appreciation Quotations for Notes
39.) The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
40.) The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
41.) Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
42.) 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
43.) When you share with someone your appreciation and gratitude, they will not forget you. Appreciation will return to you many times.
Steve Brunkhorst
44.) When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.
Paul McCabe
45.) We must learn to appreciate life. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
London Mond
Thank You Memes: Appreciation
From the Bottom of My Heart
46.) Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Dale Carnegie
47.) To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant; to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.
Johannes Gaertner
48.) Appreciate what you have, where you are, and who you are within this moment.
Tony Clark
49.) For all you do, for who you are, I will be forever grateful you are in my life.
Emma Forrest
50.) The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James
Thanks Sayings
51.) To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
52.) Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton
53.) 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
54.) Stop thinking of gratitude as a buy product of your circumstances and start thinking of it as a worldview.
Bryan Robles
55.) Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
56.) Saying thanks costs nothing but gives everything.
Unknown
57.) I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
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58.) No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen
59.) Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.
Rhonda Byrne
60.) Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
61.) Learn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue all that you want.
Jim Rohn
62.) Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
Roy T. Bennett
63.) I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
64.) Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
Endless Gratitude Quotes
65.) Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and to give thanks continuously.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
66.) There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
Joyce Meyer
67.) If you can’t reward, then you should thank them.
Arabic Proverb
68.) Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
William Shakespeare
69.) Be thankful for your trials. If you’re being tested, you’re being perfected. Which means you have a divine purpose and reason to rejoice.
Unknown
70.) Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
Thanks For Friends Quotations
71.) 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
72.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
73.) Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
74.) Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value in your life.
Northrup Christiane
75.) Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Marcel Proust
76.) It’s the friends you can call up at 4 am that matters.
Marlene Dietrich
77.) Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy. Thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. (And) Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.
Nicholas Sparks
78.) Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
79.) When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. Chesterton
80.) I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
81.) So many people have touched my heart and made an impact on my world. I’m thankful for every lesson and learning experience.
Bindi Irwin
Thank You God Quotations
82.) ‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding.
Alice Walker
83.) If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
84.) My legacy doesn’t matter. It isn’t important that I be remembered. It’s important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ I want to finish strong.
James Dobson
85.) I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour and the minute.
Maya Angelou
86.) O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
William Shakespeare
87.) If you suffer, thank God. It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Gratitude Meme
We are Blessed
88.) Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
Unknown
89.) A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
90.) Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
Thomas S Monson
91.) Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell Lowell
92.) Be grateful for small mercies.
Alexandra Adornetto
93.) If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.
Unknown
94.) So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Douglas Adams
Thankful for You
95.) I appreciate you more because of the road I’ve traveled. My story brought me to you, and I wouldn’t revise a word of my past if it led me anywhere but to your door.
Aaron Polson
96.) Words are never warm and tender enough to express one’s appreciation of great kindness.
Helen Keller
97.) We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
98.) How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
99.) Your thoughtfulness will always be remembered.
Unknown
100.) The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
101.) One man may hit the mark, another blunder, but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
For All You Do
102.) I appreciate you. Especially your heart.
Unknown
103.) 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
104.) What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
105.) You changed my life without even trying, and I don’t think I could ever tell you how much you mean to me. I can’t imagine what things would be like if I hadn’t met you.
Steve Maraboli
106.) One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb
107.) A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Plato
108.) I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but my heart has no bottom for you.
Unknown
109.) A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
Buddha
110.) Thank you. You have shown me the way back to myself.
Charles Baudelaire
111.) I thank everyone who has caused me to suffer; without you, I would have no reason to express myself.
Unknown
Words of Thanks Meme
Thank You, Teacher
112.) If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
Guy Kawasaki
113.) Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
Helen Caldicott
114.) Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Confucius
115.) Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you’ve made in the lives you have touched.
Donna Fargo
116.) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
117.) For your thoughtfulness and generosity from you, I have learned much of life’s philosophy. Thank you sincerely.
Unknown
118.) A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas á Kempis
Messages For Him
119.) If I were to write all the reasons I am thankful for you on tiny slips of paper, they would easily fill up the entire ocean.
120.) Let me just say that this has been the best year yet. We have made lots of great memories and had some really great times. I owe it all to you.
121.) I used to think that true happiness was not a possibility for me, but ever since I first met you, you have completely changed my life and changed my mind. Words simply cannot express how grateful I am to you for everything you have done.
122.) Thanks for erasing the word nightmare from the dictionary of my life. You have made my life a dream come true.
123.) Even when I forget to say thank you, please know always that I do appreciate you and value you.
Appreciation Sayings
124.) When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect for others.
Dalai Lama
125.) We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
126.) Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter
127.) The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson
128.) Saying thank you is more than good manners; it is good spirituality.
Alfred Painter
129.) It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed at the same moment.
Naomi Williams
130.) You can say it too little, but you can never say, Thank You too many times.
L.M. Fields
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You Are a Lifesaver
131.) The unthankful heart discovers no mercies, but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
132.) Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’
Zig Ziglar
133.) We are in the wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
Charles Spurgeon
134.) Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.
Hansa Proverb
135.) Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Seneca
136.) You won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.
Viki King
137.) If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
Gerald Good
138.) Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Unknown
139.) To say thank you is in recognition of humanity.
Toni Mont
140.) Saying “thank you” creates love.
Daphne Rose Kingma
141.) A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
142.) Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
143.) For me, giving thanks is a sign of appreciation and gratitude that also brings about a deep sense of peace.
Wally Amos
Thanks For Your Help Quotes
144.) No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
Joseph Addison
145.) Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
146.) Sometimes, I forget to thank the people who make my life happy in so many ways.
Unknown
147.) Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
148.) I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
149.) Make it a habit to tell people, “Thank you.” To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.
Ralph Marston
For Your Support
150.) We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John F. Kennedy
151.) For this relief, much thanks. It’s bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.
William Shakespeare
152.) No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North Whitehead
153.) I want to thank you for the profound joy I’ve had in the thought of you.
Rosie Alison
154.) Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of color are beyond all praise and equally beyond all thanks.
Marie Corelli
155.) I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.
Jon Pardi
156.) Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
David Thomas
157.) Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Inspirational Thank You Quotes
158.) Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
159.) Silent gratitude isn’t much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
160.) 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
161.) Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it all into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
162.) Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
163.) Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
164.) 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
165.) There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Hellen Keller
166.) All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. Abraham Lincoln
167.) Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
168.) 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
Gratitude and Thanks
169.) Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
170.) Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
171.) Gratitude is divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.
Charlotte Brontë
172.) Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.
Jenni Rivera
173.) You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
174.) I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.
William Shakespeare
175.) When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
How to Use the Thank You Memes
Our thank-you memes can be used for various purposes. If someone has completed an act of kindness for you, you could thank them on Facebook. Use one of the thank you memes as the visual and write a note for all to see. A little public recognition is usually well-received.
Or, send one of the thank you memes in a personal email or text as a means of showing your appreciation. Always accompany the visual with some words of thanks and appreciation.
If someone has given you a thoughtful gift, you could use one of the thank you memes as part of a thank you text.
We hope you agree that carefully selected quotes or one of our thank you memes could serve as a nice expression of gratitude to friends and family.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and founder of Greeting Card Poet.
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