A life full of thankful quotes is an enriched life. If you want to lead a happier life, be grateful for everything you have. From friends and family to the smallest things in your life, show gratitude. Remember, you can never shower enough of your thankfulness on those around you.
Every heart has an abundance of gratitude and love in it that you can never exhaust it. Never fret in showing your appreciation for everything and everyone that comes your way. If you are looking for the best way to make this world a better place, share your gratitude.
To kick things off, the Poet’s Panel has selected the top ten thankful quotes.
Best Thankful Quotes
1.) Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Unknown
2.) When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
Dalai Lama
3.) A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Plato
4.) There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
5.) The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzche
6.) Sometimes, you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Suess
7.) I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
8.) Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
9.) Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
10.) The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson
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11.) Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Jim Lovell
12.) Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
Roy T. Bennett
13.) 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
14.) 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
15.) Be grateful for all the obstacles in your life. They have strengthened you as you continue with your journey.
Unknown
16.) The unthankful heart discovers no mercies, but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Henry Ward Beecher
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17.) Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
18.) If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
19.) 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
20.) He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
Thomas Secker
21.) Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
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22.) If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone
23.) Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
24.) 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
25.) None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
Harvey Mackay
26.) Every so often we’re blessed by angles disguised as friends who enrich our lives more than we could ever have expected.
Unknown
27.) Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.
Ralph Marston
28.) It means so much to me knowing how much you care and that if either of us needs to talk, the other will be there.
Unknown
29.) The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
30.) Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Appreciation Quotes
31.) 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
32.) No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen
33.) Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
34.) We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thorton Wilder
35.) Appreciation can make a day – even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
36.) Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
37.) Be thankful for what you have today. Work hard for what you have tomorrow.
Unknown
38.) 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
39.) Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude Sayings
40.) 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. (And) It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
41.) Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
William Arthur Ward
42.) 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
43.) Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar
44.) Appreciate good people. They are hard to come by.
Unknown
45.) There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
Helen Keller
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46.) I just want to thank you for being my reason to look forward to the next day.
Unknown
47.) 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
48.) Your friendship is a special gift, generously given, happily accepted, and deeply appreciated.
Unknown
49.) Thank you for reminding me what butterflies feel like.
Unknown
50.) Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy; thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. 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
51.) I appreciate you in countless ways and on countless days.
Unknown
52.) Thank you for making so many ordinary moments.
Unknown
53.) Thank you for staying even when you had every reason to leave.
Unknown
Good Thankful Quotes
54.) 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
55.) Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward
56.) It is not happy people who are thankful; it is thankful people who are happy.
Unknown
57.) There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Ralph H. Blum
58.) To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes Gaertner
59.) Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli
Gratefulness
60.) When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
61.) A grateful mind is a great mind, which eventually attracts to itself great things.
Plato
62.) There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
Joyce Meyer
63.) Gratitude is the heart’s memory.
French Proverb
64.) It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
Unknown
65.) I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
66.) I’m thankful for every moment.
Al Green
67.) Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Cicero
68.) If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
Gerald Good
69.) I’m thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.
Alex Elle
70.) If you have any suggestions for our Thankful Quotes page, please let us know via the Contact page. Thanks.
Thank You For Everything
71.) My world is brighter and more beautiful because of you. Thank you.
Unknown
72.) I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.
Jake Owen
73.) I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on our behalf. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
Unknown
74.) I thank you for your part in my journey.
Unknown
75.) I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.
Jon Pardi
76.) Thank you for coming into my life. Thank you for making me smile like crazy. And thank you for making me happy.
Unknown
77.) Thank you for always giving me the extra push I need.
Unknown
78.) The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
Unknown
79.) A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
Buddha (The type of thankful quotes you can easily remember and recite.)
80.) I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.
Bonnie Tyler
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81.) I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, and dreams that turned into reality.
Unknown
82.) He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
83.) Interrupt anxiety with gratitude.
Unknown
84.) A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.
Unknown
85.) The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
86.) One joy scatters one hundred griefs. Find it and be thankful.
Unknown
87.) Each day is a gift. Don’t send it back unopened.
Unknown
Attitude is Gratitude
88.) It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni
89.) I may not be where I want to be, but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be.
Habeeb Akande
90.) I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.
Confucius
91.) It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
David Steindl-Rast
92.) Gratitude changes everything.
Unknown
93.) Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
94.) Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
95.) Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Unknown
96.) The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
97.) Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle.
Mary Davis
98.) The struggle ends when gratitude begins.
Neale Donald Walsch
99.) May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
Mahatma Gandhi
100.) Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown
101.) Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
Mason Cooley
Abundance of Blessings
102.) Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
103.) 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
104.) Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.
Alice Walker
105.) We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
Henry A
106.) 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
107.) 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
108.) Enjoy the little things, for one day, you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
109.) Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart Tolle
110.) The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.
James E. Faust
Grateful
111.) Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
112.) When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
113.) 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
114.) 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
115.) Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
116.) Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
117.) Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
Inspirational Thankful Quotes
118.) When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out, and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong
119.) Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
120.) 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
121.) Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
122.) 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
123.) We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
124.) The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama
125.) Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Practicing Gratitude
126.) I am almost contented just now and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart but not to bursting; it warms it but not to fever.
Charlotte Brontë
127.) The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
Hannah Whitall Smith
128.) Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still, I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin
129.) I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalm 9:1
Where to Use These Thankful Quotes
Here are some suggestions for where you can use these thankful quotes:
A.) Use them in a family text to remind everyone about the importance of gratitude.
B.) Include a meaningful quote as a sign-off in every email you send for a week.
C.) In a thank-you card to a teacher, recite your favorite quote at the top or bottom.
D.) Find two favorites and repeat them at the dinner table.
E.) As a prayer each night. List three things that you’re grateful for, and then include a favorite quote to end each day.
F.) Meditate each morning with one of your favorite quotes as the mantra.
G.) Kick off a group meeting by letting them know how each and every one of them has been so helpful to you, and then share one of these thankful quotes.
H.) Send a hand-written note to three people who have had a positive impact in your life the past year, and include a different thankful quote in each.
By Liz Olson
Liz is a writer and poet who lives in Minneapolis.
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