quotations about gratitude
And because gratitude is a form of joy, certainly we can give God not only our gratitude but also our praise, that his glory should be sufficient for our life and our joy.
ARTHUR C. MCGILL
Dying Unto Life
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
THICH NHAT HANH
Peace Is Every Step
Gratitude is a right estimate of our relationship to God, to others, and to life itself, because gratitude is the recognition that no one is a solitary achiever, no one has accumulated success or wealth unaided. Every human being is a debtor.
J. ELLSWORTH KALAS
Longing to Pray
He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Reverence for Life
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
GUILLAUME MASSIEU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
C. S. LEWIS
The Screwtape Letters
Gratitude is a painful pleasure, felt and expressed by none but noble souls.
L. C. JUDSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Gratitude is a motivator of altruistic action, according to Aquinas, because it entails thanking one's benefactors and generating a fitting and appropriate response.
ROBERT A. EMMONS
introduction, The Psychology of Gratitude
To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Mary Marston
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Grateful persons resemble fertile fields, which always repay more than they receive.
JAMES CORNWELL
The Young Composer
For the expectation of gratitude is mean, and is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person. It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you. It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Gifts", Essays
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
SENECA
Morals
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
OVID
Amorum
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Gratitude is a second pleasure, one that prolongs the pleasure that precedes and occasions it, like a joyful echo of the joy we feel, a further happiness for the happiness we have been given.
ANDRE COMTE-SPONVILLE
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues
Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.
SANAYA ROMAN
Living with Joy
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
ELIE WIESEL
Nobel acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 1986
Gratitude is a transformative energy. Gratitude doesn't just feel good, it affects the world around you. Gratitude is a weapon to be used against the villains of pain and unpleasantness. Gratitude is the sword of the spiritual superhero. If you are armed with true gratitude, you will soon become invincible in your spiritual journey through mortality. With gratitude you will bring a transformation to your own life and also cause a ripple effect that will help to bring about evolutionary change to the entire planet. Gratitude raises consciousness.
BRAD FLINDERS
The Evolving Soul