Fabulous Quotes on Gratitude

Browsing through quotes on gratutude is the perfect way to prepare when you want to say a meaningful thank you!

So, here's a selection of quotes to complement my original collection of quotes to say thank you.

As Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), wrote in "Pro Plancio," in 54 B.C.
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

I hope these extra quotes on gratitude will provide you with lots of inspiration while you are busy searching for ways to express your gratitude.

Top Quotes on Gratitude

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quotes on gratitude

A man's indebtedness is not virtue;
his repayment is.
Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling.

The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
Clarence E. Hodges

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint. I can choose to be grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson (1860 - 1937)

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.
Terry Lynn Taylor

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Yogi Bhajan

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

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

I am grateful for my family and for being able to do many things. This helps me through the rough times by showing me that if we have food, shelter and love we are doing well.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos ... the trees, the clouds, everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh

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

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek

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

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Bronwyn Stern

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Anthony Robbins

Without gratitude, we have no wings. The highest and last freedom is to feel ever-increasing gratitude.
Laura Teresa Marquez

And Now ... Quotes on Ingratitude

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind, as man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards. Barbara Paley

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

I will being adding more quotes on gratitude regularly ... I'm always on the lookout for new ones! If I've missed out your favourite thank you quote, please send it to me here and I will be glad to include it.