Gratitude Quotes
Starting a daily practice of gratitude can help you recognize the positive in your life instead of focusing on the negative. Saying thank you and showing sincere gratitude for the big and seemingly little things of life can make all the difference in our relationships.
These gratitude quotes can help us reflect on all that we have to be thankful for. It can also help us inspire a friend to cultivate the habit of being thankful at all times.
Below, you will find our collection of gratitude quotes, we hope these quotes will inspire you to express gratitude to the people who deserve it most.
60 Thoughtful Quotes About Gratitude
“Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle.”— Mary Davis
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”— Zig Ziglar
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”— Rumi
“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.”— Melody Beattie
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses.”— Alphonse Karr
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”— Maya Angelou
“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
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”— William Arthur Ward
“The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Entitlement is such a cancer because it is void of gratitude.”— Adam Smith
“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.”— Deepak Chopra
It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness. – Anonymus
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”— Randy Rausch
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere.”— Emmanuel Dagher
“Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker’s life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.”— Sri Chinmoy
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”— Alfred North Whitehead
“Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy.”— Sara Avant Stover
“Gratitude unlocks all that’s blocking us from really feeling truthful, really feeling authentic and vulnerable and happy.”— Gabrielle Bernstein
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.”— Ralph Marston
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”— Cynthia Ozick
“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”— Neale Donald Walsch
“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”— Confucius
“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”— Yogi Bhajan
“Today, I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.”— Anonymous
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It’s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.”— Roberto Benigni
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”— Epicurus
“Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.”— Rhonda Byrne
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out, and the tide of love rushes in.”— Kristin Armstrong
“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
“Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.”— Richelle E. Goodrich
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We must never forget the importance of gratitude.”— Anonymous
Gratitude makes sense of your past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melody Beattie
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”— Aesop
“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.”— Alan Cohen
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”— Cicero
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”— Brené Brown
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”— Jacques Maritain
‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”— Alice Walker
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”— Buddha
“Nothing new can come into your life unless you are grateful for what you already have.”— Michael Bernhard
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.”— Elie Wiesel
“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.”— Charles Schwab
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”— Aesop
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”— David Steindl-Rast
“I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.”— Confucius
“Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.”— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”— William Arthur Ward
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”— Frank A. Clark
“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
“Be grateful for what you have and work hard for what you don’t have.”— Anonymous
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”— James Allen
“Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining–it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems.”— Zig Ziglar
“When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears.”— Tony Robbins
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”— Dalai Lama
“May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe.”— Hafiz
“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”— Voltaire