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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: A
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.
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.
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 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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: B
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 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 1813 – 1887
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the Soul.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Bible
Every good and perfect gift comes from above.
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, His love endures forever.
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 1932 – 2016
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
Robert Brault
What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering, than the family and the gathering.
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 1948
If you’ve only one breath left, use it to say thank you.
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 1945
The more thankful you are, the more you attract things to be thankful for.
100 Gratitude Quotes: C
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 1944
Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.
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 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
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Margaret Cousins
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
100 Gratitude Quotes: D
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015
As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
Wayne Dyer 1940 – 2015
This magnificent Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratitude.
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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: E
Meister Eckhart 1260 – 1327
If the only prayer you ever say in your life is ‘Thank You,’ it will be enough.
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 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 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 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
100 Gratitude Quotes: G
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 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 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
100 Gratitude Quotes: H
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 1964
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.
100 Gratitude Quotes: J
David Jeremiah 1941
It’s possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.
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.’
100 Gratitude Quotes: K
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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: L
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.
Daniel Levin
Feel gratitude for everything. When we see every situation as being perfect, just the way it is, happiness grows and grows.
100 Gratitude Quotes: M
Jacques Maritain 1882 – 1973
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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 1915 – 1968
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: N
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 1933
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
100 Gratitude Quotes: O
Orin (Sanaya Roman)
Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.
100 Gratitude Quotes: P
Norman Vincent Peale 1898 – 1993
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness…
the more you have to be thankful for.
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
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.
Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
100 Gratitude Quotes: Q
Robert Quillen 1887 – 1948
If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
100 Gratitude Quotes: R
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 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.
John Roger
Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.
Jalal Uddin Rumi 1207 – 1273
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
100 Gratitude Quotes: S
William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
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.
100 Gratitude Quotes: T
Henry David Thoreau 1817 – 1862
I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Eckhart Tolle 1948
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Brian Tracy 1944
Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.
100 Gratitude Quotes: W
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 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 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 1952
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
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
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 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 1770 – 1850
All which we behold is full of blessings.
100 Gratitude Quotes: Z
Doe Zantamata
Choose to see the world through grateful eyes. It will never look the same way again.
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.
100 Gratitude Quotes:
Unknown Sources
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.
