Gratitude Quotes: Uplifting Words of Thankfulness and Appreciation

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South"

Roald Amundsen, Explorer

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

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude"

Thomas Erskine, Theologian

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver"

Sophocles, Author

"There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

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

"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, President

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"The public have neither shame or gratitude"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude"

Sallust, Historian

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics"

Bill Vaughan, Journalist

"We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"Do you want to fast this Lent? Fast from hurting words and say kind words. Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude"

Pope Francis, Pope

"Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church"

John McGahern, Writer

"Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

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