Thankfulness Quotes

“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . that they are alive, if for nothing else. I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“They [in the northern country] had, as well, invented a holiday called Thanksgiving, which Ruby had only recently got news of, but from what she gathered its features to be, she found it to contain the mark of a tainted culture. To be thankful on just the one day.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

“If you woke up this morning, you have reason to be grateful. If you lie your head on a pillow tonight, you have reason to give thanks. Don't take a single day for grated. They run out.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Complainers are louder than thankers.”
― Andrew B. Ray

“I want to say that I think that the most important things in life are thankfulness, forgiveness, and love. Mama taught me to always be thankful. And when you say thank you it makes other people feel happy. And forgiveness, because, life is too short to be cross. It's also not fun. And, last but not least, love - because when you have love in your heart, nothing and no one can take it away from you.”
― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

“I don't know why, but I'm not thankful. I'm never thankful. I want to be, I do, but all I feel is this annoyance that won't stop. Every nice thing that anyone could ever think to do to me leaves me feeling enraged. It's like, too little too late, buddy.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“GRATITUDE changes ATTITUDE in an instant.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Abundance is not what you hold in your hand. Rather, it's what you have in your heart. And until we realize this, both will feel empty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It starts with one thing. And when I find that ‘one thing’ that I can be thankful for, others immediately rush to the forefront of my mind. And in but a few moments I am so inundated by all that I have to be thankful for that any sense that my life is impoverished itself becomes impoverished.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I only own something because someone somewhere sacrificed in order to create the situation where I have the opportunity to own it. And therefore, the more I own the more I owe.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everything that I have becomes invisible in my search for everything that I don’t have. And when that happens, what I don’t have starts to look like the only thing that I do have.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Joshua Gibbs felt sun on his face and thought about opening his eyes. He decided to wait. He had some blessings to savor that wouldn’t need sight.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“The more you thank, the more things to be grateful for you will receive. The opposite is also true.”
― Richie Norton

“You can thank us by doing something serious with it”
― Philip Caputo, Hunter's Moon: A Novel in Stories

“God takes our thankfulness very seriously. When we give thanks, we honor Him. And the opposite is also true. When we do not give thanks—when we are ungrateful—we dishonor Him.”
― David Wilber

“Grateful people generate a higher vibration, and a stronger energy because they run on love and awareness that life is a true gift.”
― Toni Sorenson

“People who master the art of gratitude are people who know the value of life.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face...”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“Thanking is a form of payment that exponentially pays forward both personally and professionally. People are far more likely to collaborate with, hire, or refer a grateful person than an ungrateful one.”
― Richie Norton

“I've had so much time to think down here, and I want to say that I think that the most important thing in life are thankfulness, forgiveness, and love. Mama taught me to always be thankful. And when you say thank you it makes other people feel happy. And forgiveness, because, life is too short to be cross. It's also not fun. And, last but not least, love- because when you have love in your heart, nothing and no one can take it away from you.”
― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

“I have gone out of my comfort zone for some people. Some people have gone out of their comfort zone for me. And I'm grateful.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“It’s not the world that enslaves me. Rather, it’s my attitude about the world as positioned against the rather faltering belief that I can change it. And when that belief is firmly rooted in a relentless thankfulness that I have both the privilege and the gifting to do exactly that, I can know that I will never be a slave to my attitude, which is one of the greatest acts of liberation that I will ever experience.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Where an attitude of thankfulness is not, greed takes root. And that root will only fall to the axe of thankfulness. Therefore, we need to hold both the attitude and the axe ever close so that the roots never are.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is an invincible fortress that greed, gluttony and all of the other self-centered forces relentlessly assail with great force. Yet this unassailable fortress is such that the torrent may advance against it in a manner both vile and formidable, but the mad rage of this crazed maelstrom born of greed will helplessly fall to an exhausted calm before it ever touches its walls. And it is the simple attitude of thankfulness that builds a massive fortress such as this.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Thank You, Universe!”
― Dr. Rana Al-Falaki, Women Who Want More: How to Create a Balanced and Fulfilled Life

“Every blessing a Christian ever receives is from a pierced hand.”
― Douglas Wilson, Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Tools & Wealth

“Thee asked me where I'd been and how I'd fared. I've been quite a step. . . and fared mighty well the whole ways. If a man'd fared any better'n me it'd unsettled his mind. I've had two eyes and seen sights so pretty there's no words to duplicate them. I've drunk the wine of astonishment. . .standing still, gazing. I've had two feet and no better land anywhere to walk on. Green plush grass in spring, and leaves like a carpet in fall. I've smelled white clover in daytime and quenched my thirst with live spring-water. I've earned my bread in the sweat of my brow, and still do, hard-scrabble like any other man, but making out. I've had for wife the one woman I'd choose, and been free to lift my voice to God. Though mighty backward, I reckon, in making out what He's had to say to me. I've fared so well. . . .that a jot more'n I'd be crying.”
― Jessamyn West, The Friendly Persuasion

“The best thing to do is to focus on beauty of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Eat your meal with thankfulness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Praise the LORD, all people's! Praise the LORD, for for his faithfulness is eternal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita