Grateful Quotes
1829 Grateful quotes by 1234 unique authors
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[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought…
— Arthur Helps
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united…
— Unknown Author
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]
— Charlie Chaplin
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...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.
— Dale Carnegie
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...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It…
— Price Pritchett
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...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is,…
— Frithjof Schuon
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Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
— John Templeton
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Look around and find something for which to be grateful.
— Rickson Gracie
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Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things…
— Pierre Corneille
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their…
— Oscar Wilde
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[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant…
— Izaak Walton
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
— Ramana Maharshi
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The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world…
— Robert Ringer
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How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and…
— Fanny Burney
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful…
— W. Clement Stone
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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In the light of his vision that is the perspective that allows him to be grateful that things are not worse he has found his…
— Gautama Buddha
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The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. ...that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high…
— Charlie Munger
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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