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

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

We all have the duty to do good.

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

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.