100 Gratitude Quotes To Live By

Be thankful for what you have, you'll end up having more - Oprah Winfrey - Spiritual Quotes To Live By

Here are 100 of the best gratitude quotes on this site. They are all about being thankful, grateful and appreciating what we have. As the Law of Attraction teaches us, whatever we put our attention  on will increase in our lives, so being thankful for the abundant of everyday blessings will bring us more things to be thankful for.

This collection is available to download and print as a box set of small quote cards from my Spiritual Quotes.

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A Course In Miracles

A Course In Miracles
Look with peace upon your brothers, and God will come rushing into your heart in gratitude for your gift to Him.


What shares the purpose of the Universe shares the purpose of its Creator. Try then to begin to learn to look on all things with love, appreciation and open-mindness.

What shares the purpose of the Universe shares the purpose of its Creator. Try then to begin to learn to...  A Course In Miracles - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Esther Hicks

Abraham-Hicks
Appreciation is the magic formula you’ve been seeking.


Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you’re worrying you are planning. When you are appreciating you are planning. What are you planning?


When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-Being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-Being.

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Eric Allen
Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou 1928 – 2014
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.


Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.

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Albert Frederick Bayly  1901 – 1984

Praise and thanksgiving, Father, we offer
For all things living, You have made good
Harvest of sown fields, fruits of the orchard
Hay from the mown fields, blossom and wood

Melody Beattie

Melody Beattie  1948
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.

Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher  1813 – 1887
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the Soul.


The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Bible

Bible
Every good and perfect gift comes from above.


Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love endures forever.

William Blake

William Blake  1757 – 1827
Gratitude is Heaven itself.


He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity’s sunrise.


The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Ralph H. Blum

Ralph H. Blum  1932 – 2016
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

Robert Brault

Robert Brault
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering, than the family and the gathering.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Every time we remember to say “Thank You’” we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.


Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.


You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

Pam Brown

Pam Brown  1948
If you’ve only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

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Gertrude T. Buckingham 1880 – ?

O Infinite Father, I’m grateful to Thee
For the moon and the stars and deep rolling sea
For beauties of nature, where e’er they may be…
For the handclasp of friends, so firm and so true
For sunrise and sunset and glistening dew
The fleecy white clouds and the heavens, so blue
For these wonderful gifts, dear Lord, I thank you!

Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne  1945
The more thankful you are, the more you attract things to be thankful for.

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Eileen Caddy

Eileen Caddy  1917 – 2006
Difficulties are opportunities to better things. They are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some failure in a particular direction. When one door closes another one opens.. As a natural law it has to balance.


Gratitude helps you to grow and expand. Gratitude brings joy and laughter into your lives and into the lives of all those around you.

Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield  1944
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Gilbert Chesterton

Gilbert Chesterton  1874 – 1936
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Matthias Claudius

Matthias Claudius  1740 – 1815

All good gifts around us
Are sent from Heaven above
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord
For all His love

Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

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Margaret Cousins
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

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Wayne Dyer

 Wayne Dyer  1940 – 2015
As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience. - Wayne Dyer - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Wayne Dyer

 Wayne Dyer  1940 – 2015
This magnificent Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratitude.

This magnificent Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratitude. - Wayne Dyer - Spiritual Quotes To Live By

Henry Van Dyke  1852 – 1933
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

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Hal Elrod

Meister Eckhart 1260 – 1327
If the only prayer you ever say in your life is ‘Thank You,’ it will be enough.

Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod  1979
When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803 – 1882

For flowers that bloom about our feet
For tender grass so fresh, so sweet
For the song of bird and hum of bee
For all things fair we hear or see
Father in heaven, we thank Thee

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803 – 1882

For blue of stream and blue of sky
For pleasant shade of branches high
For fragrant air and cooling breeze
For beauty of the blooming trees
Father in heaven, we thank Thee

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1803 – 1882

For this new morning with its light
For rest and shelter of the night
For health and food, for love and friends
For everything Thy goodness sends
Father in heaven, we thank Thee

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Johannes A. Gaertner

Johannes A. Gaertner  1912 – 1996
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.

Trina Graves  1961 

If ever you are feeling down
Whatever it is that makes you frown
Just open your eyes and look about
You’ll find something, without a doubt
To make you smile and appreciate
That the simple things in life are great

Fred Pratt Green

Fred Pratt Green  1881 – 1959

For the fruits of His creation
Thanks be to God
For His gifts to every nation
Thanks be to God
For the ploughing, sowing, reaping
Silent growth while we are sleeping
Future needs in earth’s safe-keeping
Thanks be to God

Edgar Guest

Edgar Guest  1881 – 1959

Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest you are
How much there is to gladden life, how little life to mar
And what if rain shall fall today and you with grief are sad
Be grateful that you can recall the joys that you have had

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Frances Ridley Havergal

Frances Ridley Havergal  1836 – 1879
complete wording on Hymn page

Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to thee
Take my moments and my days
Let them flow in ceaseless praise

Robert Holden

Robert Holden  1964
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.

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David Jeremiah

David Jeremiah  1941
It’s possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

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Chris Jones
Grief tells our hearts things like, ‘How can I possibly find joy again when so much was lost?’ Gratitude responds softly, ‘Yes, it hurts, but what a blessing it was, even if only a short time.’

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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy  1917 – 1963
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Harold Kushner  1935
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the Soul.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama  1935
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  1729 – 1781
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

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Daniel Levin
Feel gratitude for everything. When we see every situation as being perfect, just the way it is, happiness grows and grows.

Feel gratitude for everything. When we see every situation as being perfect, just the way it is, happiness grows and grows. Daniel Levin - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
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Jacques Maritain  1882 – 1973
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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Ralph Marston
Every day is a day to be thankful. Life’s abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton  1915 – 1968
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne  1882 – 1956
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.


Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude.

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Native American
We return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson  1933
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

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Sanaya Roman

Orin (Sanaya Roman)
Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale  1898 – 1993
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness…
the more you have to be thankful for.

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Folliott Sandford Pierpoint  1835 – 1917
complete wording on Hymn page

For the beauty of the earth
For the beauty of the skies
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise

For the beauty of the earth
For the beauty of the skies For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies... - Pierpoint - Spiritual Quotes To Live By
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust  1871 – 1922
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our Souls blossom.

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Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

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Robert Quillen

Robert Quillen  1887 – 1948
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.

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Martin Rinkart

Martin Rinkart  1586-1649

Now thank we all our God
With heart and hands and voices
Who wondrous things hath done
In Whom His world rejoices

Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins  1960
Ultimately, the only way to experience the richness of life is to live in an attitude of gratitude: to appreciate what you have and what you can give. The best way to ensure your happiness is to assist others in experiencing their own.

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John Roger
Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

Jalal Uddin Rumi

Jalal Uddin Rumi  1207 – 1273
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare  1564 – 1616
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.

John G. Shedd

John G. Shedd  1850 – 1926
He who thanks but with the lips, thanks but in part,
The full, the true thanksgiving, comes from the heart.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau  1817 – 1862
I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle  1948
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy  1944
Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker  1944
‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses gratitude, humility, understanding.

William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward  1921 – 1994
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today…
Have you used one to say ‘Thank You?’


Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles  1860 – 1911
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson  1952
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey  1954
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

Rachel Wolchin

Rachel Wolchin
In life, you’ll meet two kinds of people: the ones who build you up and the ones who tear you down. In the end, you’ll thank them both.

Christopher Wordsworth

Christopher Wordsworth  1807 – 1885

For peaceful homes and healthful days
For all the blessings earth displays
We owe Thee thankfulness and praise
Who givest all

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth  1770 – 1850
All which we behold is full of blessings.

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Doe Zantamata
Choose to see the world through grateful eyes. It will never look the same way again.

Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar  1926 – 2012
Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important, and by far the most life changing.

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A good life is when you…
Smile often
Dream big
Laugh a lot
And realize how blessed you are
For what you have.

Count your blessings.
Express your gratitude.

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life.

Happy moments – Praise God
Difficult moments – Seek God
Quiet moments – Worship God
Painful moments – Trust God
Every moment – Thank God

I have an attitude of gratitude.
I count my blessings every day.
I discern the gifts in my tests.
I am open to the joys of life.
I celebrate my life.
I expect the best.

If you appreciate someone.. Let them know.

It doesn’t matter if the glass is half full or half empty… be grateful that you have a glass and there is something in it.

The bountiful gifts before us
Are blessed from up above
Give thanks for all we have today
For family, for love

The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for.

There is always something to be thankful for.

We thank you Lord
For all you give
The food we eat
The lives we live
And to our loves ones far away
Please send your blessings
Lord we pray
And help us all to live our days
With thankful hearts
And loving ways

When life is sweet…
Say thank you
And celebrate
When life is bitter
Say thank you
And grow

When you drink of the spring.. Be thankful for the Source.

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