Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

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

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

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

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

God wants to bless us where we are.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.