127 Powerful thankful quotes to inspire you

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. – Elie Wiesel

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time. – Lex Luger

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. – Steve Maraboli

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices. – Robert Braathe

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

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — Brother David Steindl-Rast

Find the good and praise it. – Alex Haley

No blessing lasts forever. – Plautus

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

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. – William Blake

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. – G.K. Chesterton

It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything. — Pharrell Williams

I lie in bed at night, after ending my prayers with the words ‘Ich danke dir für all das Gute und Liebe und Schöne.’ (Thank you, God, for all that is good and dear and beautiful.) – Anne Frank

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

The smallest act of kindness is worth than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde

You don’t get blessed, and feel blessed. You have to first feel blessed, then the blessings come to you. – Roman Price

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day. – Mason Cooley

An attitude of gratitude brings great things. – Yogi Bhajan

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

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder

We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough. — Susan L. Taylor

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. – John Wooden

I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person. – Joanna Krupa

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault

Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. – GZA

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. – Paulo Coelho

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others. – Marcus Tellius Cicero

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

True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for the experience.’ – Oprah

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. – Melody Beattie

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

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. – John F. Kennedy

I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one. – Marissa Meyer

May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe. – Hafiz

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’ – Elayne Boosler

Thank you – is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, and understanding. – Alice Walker

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. – Kristin Armstrong

Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude. – Marietta McCarty

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. — Roy T. Bennett

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. – A.A. Milne

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. – G. K. Chesterton

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. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life. — Sanaya Roman

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you? — William Arthur Ward

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Appreciation is the purest vibration that exists on the planet today. – Abraham Hicks

It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. – Germany Kent

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus. – Stephen Hawking

When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree. – Vietnamese Proverb

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone

Ingratitude is treason to mankind. – James Thomson

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

I think gratitude is a big thing. It puts you in a place where you’re humble. – Andra Day

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy. – Jefferson Bethke

Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. – Irving Berlin

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success. – Michelle Obama

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. — Lionel Hampton

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. – Albert Schweitzer

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it. – Ralph Marston

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person. – Joyce Meyer

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. – Baltasar Gracian

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. – Brené Brown

Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude. — Deepak Chopra

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. — Confucius

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. – Hansa Proverb

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. — Roy T. Bennett

I’m thankful for every moment. – Al Green

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. – Voltaire

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster. – Richard Bach

Gratitude is riches. Complain is poverty. – Doris Day

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude. – Miranda Kerr

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. – Jacques Maritain

Gratitude bestows reverence…changing forever how we experience life and the world. – John Milton

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. – W.T. Purkiser

I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. – Will Arnett

To say thank you, is in recognition of humanity. — Toni Mont

So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied. – Helen Keller

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. – Karl Barth

This is a wonderful day I have never seen this one before. – Maya Angelou

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. – Aesop

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see. — Mary Davis

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. – Oprah Winfrey

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. – Maya Angelou

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. – John Dryden

If you don’t appreciate what you have, you may as well not have it. – Rosalene Glickman

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings. – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. – John Ortberg

Always have an attitude of gratitude. – Sterling K. Brown

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks. – James Allen

Expressing gratitude is a natural state of being and reminds us that we are all connected. – Valerie Elster

For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. – Charlotte Brontë

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. – Lauryn Hill

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens

Gratitude goes beyond the ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. – Henri J.M. Nouwen