These thank you quotes are excellent for when you need to reflect on some of the great things going on in life. Whether it’s communicating to a friend or family member, or just for self-reflection. They also come in handy when someone has given you a special gift.
Perhaps these sayings will help you express your feelings of gratefulness. Plus, it’s just good manners to say thank you when someone has done a kind deed for you or given you a gift. Enjoy these thank you quotes, and remember there is always some reason to be thankful.
Best Thank You Quotes
1. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
2. The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
G.K. Chesterton
3. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G.K. Chesterton
4. I thank you, God, for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. Cummings
5. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
The Dalai Lama
6. I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
7. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
8. 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
9. Find the good and praise it.
Alex Haley
Famous Gratitude Sayings
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
They are not poor that have little, but they that desire much. The richest man, whatever his lot, is the one who’s content with his lot.
Dutch Proverb
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes Gaertner
Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human…At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.
Meredith Grey
Appreciation for Mom
SWEATER, n.: garment worn by a child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Emily Dickinson
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
Lisa Alther
A mother is the truest friend we have
Washington Irving
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.
Ann Taylor
For Boss
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Thank you God for this good life, and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Gratefulness Sayings
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Proverb
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Proverb
Don’t overload gratitude; if you do, she’ll kick.
Proverb
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Steiner Rice
The secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.
Unknown
A thankful heart is a happy heart.
Unknown
If at first, you don’t succeed, do it as your mother told you.
Unknown
The things you take for granted. Someone else is praying for. Be thankful.
Unknown
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you, my heart has no bottom.
Unknown
No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life.
Unknown
The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace
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Gratitude for Work
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
Chesterton
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day (a life quote to remember)
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
Norman Vincent Peale
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
Will Rogers
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 can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
William Shakespeare
Appreciation and Thankfulness
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Unknown
Good thank you quotes
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Unknown
It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy.
Unknown
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Unknown
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Painter
Appreciate your job
Thank you for being the reason I smile.
Unknown
A person with a gratitude, thankful approach to life is appreciated.
Unknown
He quotes a life of appreciation lives fully.
Unknown
Appreciation Quotations for Her
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
Unknown
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Unknown
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.
Unknown
Be Thankful Sayings
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don’t know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you’re tired and weary
Because it means you’ve made a difference.
It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.
GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.
Unknown
Quotes Thankful
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
John F. Kennedy
Even though we can’t have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don’t get what we deserve.
Unknown
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
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
William Arthur Ward
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
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
Giving Thanks Sayings
If you can’t reward, then you should thank.
Arabic Proverb
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melodie Beattie
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph Blum
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Buddha
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
Gratitude to Husband
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Chinese Proverb
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
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
To live a life fulfilled, reflect on the things you have with gratitude.
Jaren Davis
Thank you quotes at work
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing… a grateful heart!
George Herbert
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
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
You won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.
Viki King
Tip: Thank you quotes are a nice way of reminding children – young and old alike – of the importance of expressing gratitude.
Showing Appreciation: Thank you quotes
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
No good deed goes unpunished.
Oscar Wilde
A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Plato
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
Can’t Say Thanks Enough
Stop thinking of gratitude as a buy product of your circumstances and start thinking of it as a world view.
Bryan Robles
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
G.B. Stern
Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light. Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. And if perchance you see no reason for giving thanks, rest assured the fault is in yourself.
Tecumseh Shawnee Chief
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Ward
Tip: Include these thank you quotes at the beginning or end of a note or card you’re sending to friends and family.
To Teachers: Thank You Quotes
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
White Eagle
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Unknown
If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.
Unknown
Thank you quotes to teachers
The smallest thanks are always worth more than the effort it takes to give it.
Unknown
There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
Unknown
Be grateful, not only for others but for yourself.
Unknown
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
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By Liz Olson
Liz is a writer and poet based in Minneapolis.
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