Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks."
Gratitude quotes
Gratitude
2.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Barack Obama
Politician
"Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still."
Anne Frank
Diaries Writer
"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours."
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"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?"
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
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"Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation."
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"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."
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"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
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"When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."
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"The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days."
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"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."
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"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
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"Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]"
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"People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!"
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"Reflect upon your present blessings"
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"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?"
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"No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too."
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"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."
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"God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life."
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"I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
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"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
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