Gratitude quotes

Discover the beauty of gratitude with inspiring quotes that remind us to appreciate life's blessings and spread positive energy. Explore profound insights and uplift your spirit.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

- Sophocles

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

- Carl Jung

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

- Virgil Goode

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

- Sophocles

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

- Roald Amundsen

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

- Cordell Hull

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

- Benjamin Banneker

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

- Felix Frankfurter

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

- Jim Ramstad

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

- Samuel Johnson

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

- Henry Ward Beecher

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

- Seth Low

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

- Philip Schaff