| 56 Gratitude Quotes
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“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
Sarah Caldwell Quotes |
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
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“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears”
Anthony Robbins Quotes |
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“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Gladys Browyn Stern Quotes |
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“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
Brian Tracy Quotes |
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“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
Lionel Hampton Quotes |
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“Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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“If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky if no longer dark tempests deform;
When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep?
No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!”
George Canning Quotes Source: Song (on "Billy Pitt"), sung at a public dinner
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“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam
mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Oratio Pro Cnoeo Plancio (XXXIII)
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“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes Source: Heir-at-Law (act I, sc. 1)
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“Gratitude is expensive.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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“The still small voice of gratitude.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: For Music (st. 5)
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“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving
greater benefits.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maxim (298)
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“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
[Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]”
Jean Baptiste Massieu Quotes Source: to the Abbe Sicard
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“A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 55)
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“Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Amorum (I, 10, 43)
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“It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a
fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
[Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.
Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (II, 9, 39)
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“Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Second Book of Horace (ep. I, l. 14)
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“That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting;
gratitude for benefits eternal.
[Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus;
beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]”
Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus) Quotes Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VIII, 8, 11)
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“Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness,
even while receiving it.
[Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo
cogitet.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes Source: De Beneficiis (II, 25)
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“Now the good gods forbid
That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
Towards her deserved children is enrolled
In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
Should now eat up her own!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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“Let but the commons hear this testament,
Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read,
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Upon their issue.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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“I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath often left me mourning.”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Simon Lee
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