gratitude quotes

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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

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.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

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.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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.

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

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

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

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.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

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.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I love life because what more is there?

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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.

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.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.