gratitude quotes

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

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

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

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

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

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

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

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.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

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

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

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.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

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

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.