Thankful Quotes

These 17 quotes on thankful come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Cicero

Give thanks for the rain of life that propels us to reach new horizons.

Byron Pulsifer

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Johannes Gaertner

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and…

Denis Waitley

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.

Naomi Williams

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 the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

Hausa

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. — Marcus Aurelius

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Marcus Aurelius

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Oprah Winfrey

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