Gratitude Quotes
39 quotations about Gratitude
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Authors on Gratitude
Henry Ward Beecher
William John Bennett
Ralph H. Blum
Elizabeth Carter
Marcus T. Cicero
Demosthenes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bob Dylan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Faulkner
Felix Frankfurter
Benjamin Franklin
French Proverb
Thomas Fuller
Edward Gibbon
Baltasar Gracian
William Hazlitt
Clarence E. Hodges
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Anne Morrow Lindbergh