Gratitude Quotes And Sayings

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“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” 
– Jean Baptiste Massieu

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If you have lived, take thankfully the past.” 
– John Dryden

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” 
– John E. Southard

“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 

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
– John Henry Jowett

“The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.”
– John Quincy Adams

“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.  It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.” 
– Joseph Addison

“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.” 
– Kak Sri

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” 
– Karl Barth

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” 
– Lionel Hampton

“Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.” 
– Loretta Young

“Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.”
– M.J. Ryan

“Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.” 
– Marc Estrin

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”
– Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”
– Marcus Aurelius

“Gratitude should not be just a reaction to getting what you want, but an all-the-time gratitude, the kind where you notice the little things and where you constantly look for the good, even in unpleasant situations. Start bringing gratitude to your experiences, instead of waiting for a positive experience in order to feel grateful.”
– Marelisa Fábrega

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” 
– Margaret Cousins

“Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.” 
– Marianne Williamson

“Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.” 
– Marietta McCarty

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” 
– Meister Eckhart

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” 
– Melody Beattie

“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

“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.” 
– Nancy Friday

“The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.”
– Neale Donald Walsch

“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

“Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produced humility.”
– Orrin Woodward

“Thanks are justly due for boons unbought.” 
– Ovid

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