Gratitude
253 quotes: 26 by Keith Craft, 227 from other voices.
Other voices on Gratitude
- Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
- Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.
- Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
- Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
- 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.
- Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.LeCraeCommonly attributed
- Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
- Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
- Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
- Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Count your blessings — not your troubles!
- Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God’s worship.
- Do not let your head run upon that which is none of your own, but pick out some of the best of your circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would wish for them, were they not in your possession.
- Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
- Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
- Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.
- Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
- Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow.
- Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.
- Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
- Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
- Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.
- Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.Rebecca SolnitCommonly attributed
- Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful, and every time we complain we miss a blessing.
- Everything you desire is infinitely small compared to what you already have.
- Express gratitude generously and sincerely; receive gratitude humbly and graciously; expect gratitude rarely, if ever.
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- Find the good and praise it.
- For gratitude not merely stands alone at the head of all the virtues, but is even mother of all the rest.
- For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
- For those who expect everything, there are many curses. For those who appreciate everything, there are many blessings.
- Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
- Generosity is not a loan to repay or a debt to settle. It's a gift to appreciate.
- Give thanks even in the worst of times, for it is during those times that our faith makes us whole.
- Give thanks for the things you have before praying for things you want.
- Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
- God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'William Arthur WardCommonly attributed
- God has two dwellings — one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.