"My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position."
Read quote
3 likes
Gratitude quotes
Gratitude
2.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Gratitude
Browse quotes that often appear alongside gratitude — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Gratitude quotes (page 38 of 115)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer."
Read quote
3 likes
"Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live."
Read quote
3 likes
"If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!"
Read quote
3 likes
"Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings."
Read quote
3 likes
"Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary."
Read quote
3 likes
"the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks."
Read quote
3 likes
"Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked."
Read quote
3 likes
"Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?"
Read quote
3 likes
"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully."
Read quote
3 likes
"Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear"
Read quote
3 likes
"The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation."
Read quote
3 likes
"If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself."
Read quote
3 likes
"I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It allows me to enjoy life, experiencing everything that I perceive, exploring the events that hook my attention, modifying what I can change, and letting go of whatever I cannot."
Read quote
3 likes
"The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation."
Read quote
3 likes
"As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering."
Read quote
3 likes