There are positive effects of gratitude. It can turn strangers into friends, resolve misunderstandings, and bring a peaceful feeling to the hearts of each person. May these quotes about gratitude help you realize that it's just right to be always thankful for everything you receive and the ones you already have. When there is a chance, return that blessing in the form of kindness to others.
1. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” – Kristin Armstrong
2. “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
3. “I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.” – Sandra Day O'Connor
4. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
5. “I believe that gratitude can change our attitude.” – David DeNotaris
6. “Pass the test of being grateful for the small things and big things will be released in your life.” – Joel Osteen
7. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark
8. “Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
9. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
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10. “The practice of gratitude empowers, heals, inspires, and fosters heartfelt well-being.” – Angeles Arrien
11. “Gratitude is appreciation for every moment in your life. It is a feeling of abundance.” – Brenda Nathan
12. “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” – Jacques Maritain
13. “To get happier, try gratitude, giving back, savoring, encouraging your optimism, and celebrating progress.” – Jonathan Harnum
14. “Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.” – Marianne Williamson
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15. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
16. “When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.” – Amy Vanderbilt
17. “Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment.” – Réné Gaudette
18. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle
19. “Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.” – Zig Ziglar
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20. “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.” – Rabbi Harold Kushner
21. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” – Maya Angelou
22. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy.” – Sara Avant Stover
24. “Gratitude opens the door to the power, wisdom, and creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.” – Deepak Chopra
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25. “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
26. “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
27. “Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy.” – Albert Schweitzer
28. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
29. “May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.” – Mahatma Gandhi
30. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?” – William Arthur Ward
More Quotes on Gratitude
31. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” – John Ortberg
32. “An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.” – Sir John Templeton
33. “Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.” – Tom Giaquinto
34. “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” – John Henry Jowett
35. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
36. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
37. “For each 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.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “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
39. “One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.” – Silvia Hartmann
40. “The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.” – Carma Spence
41. “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
42. “Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
43. “The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” – Neale Donald Walsch
44. “Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.” – Marietta McCarty
45. “Gratitude of heart can often be seen in a generous spirit.” – Our Daily Bread devotion
46. “Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.” – David Che
47. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” – Oprah Winfrey
48. “Gratitude is heaven itself.” – William Blake
49. “The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar
50. “Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” – Thomas Goodwin
51. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” – Vicki Robin
52. “A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust
53. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick
54. “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” – Brené Brown
55. “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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
56. “Our smiles are the best way to convey internal joy and gratitude to the universe.” – Purvi Raniga
57. “Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
58. “The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.” – Amy Poehler
59. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” – Harry A. Ironside
60. “Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
61. “Expressing gratitude is a natural state of being and reminds us that we are all connected.” – Valerie Elster
62. “Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for.” – Barry Neil Kaufman
63. “When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere.” – Emmanuel Dalgher
64. “Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.” – Tom Hopkins
65. “Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
66. “Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.” – Edward Wood
67. “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” – Stephen Richards
68. “Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life, in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.” – Sri Chinmoy
69. “Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
70. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar
71. “Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
72. “It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.” – Pharrell Williams
73. “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
74. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
75. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
76. “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
77. “Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.” – Anonymous
78. “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Will Arnett
79. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
80. “The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.” – Hannah Whitall Smith
81. “Gratitude shouldn’t be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.” – Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase
82. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” – Randy Rausch
83. “It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness.” – Anonymous
84. “Whatever we are waiting for—peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance—will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
85. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
86. “Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.” – Loretta Young
87. “We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.” – Susan L. Taylor
88. “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
89. “When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
90. “When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.” – Paul J. Meyer
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2. “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
3. “I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.” – Sandra Day O'Connor
4. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
5. “I believe that gratitude can change our attitude.” – David DeNotaris
6. “Pass the test of being grateful for the small things and big things will be released in your life.” – Joel Osteen
7. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark
8. “Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
9. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
11. “Gratitude is appreciation for every moment in your life. It is a feeling of abundance.” – Brenda Nathan
12. “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” – Jacques Maritain
13. “To get happier, try gratitude, giving back, savoring, encouraging your optimism, and celebrating progress.” – Jonathan Harnum
14. “Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.” – Marianne Williamson
16. “When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.” – Amy Vanderbilt
17. “Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment.” – Réné Gaudette
18. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle
19. “Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.” – Zig Ziglar
21. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” – Maya Angelou
22. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
23. “Gratitude is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel. It elevates our moods and fills us with joy.” – Sara Avant Stover
24. “Gratitude opens the door to the power, wisdom, and creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.” – Deepak Chopra
26. “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
27. “Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy.” – Albert Schweitzer
28. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
29. “May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.” – Mahatma Gandhi
30. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?” – William Arthur Ward
More Quotes on Gratitude
31. “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.” – John Ortberg
32. “An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.” – Sir John Templeton
33. “Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.” – Tom Giaquinto
34. “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” – John Henry Jowett
35. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” – Epictetus
36. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
37. “For each 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.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “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
39. “One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.” – Silvia Hartmann
40. “The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.” – Carma Spence
41. “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
42. “Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
43. “The struggle ends when gratitude begins.” – Neale Donald Walsch
44. “Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude.” – Marietta McCarty
45. “Gratitude of heart can often be seen in a generous spirit.” – Our Daily Bread devotion
46. “Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.” – David Che
47. “What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” – Oprah Winfrey
48. “Gratitude is heaven itself.” – William Blake
49. “The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar
50. “Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” – Thomas Goodwin
51. “If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” – Vicki Robin
52. “A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust
53. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” – Cynthia Ozick
54. “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.” – Brené Brown
55. “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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
56. “Our smiles are the best way to convey internal joy and gratitude to the universe.” – Purvi Raniga
57. “Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
58. “The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.” – Amy Poehler
59. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” – Harry A. Ironside
60. “Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
61. “Expressing gratitude is a natural state of being and reminds us that we are all connected.” – Valerie Elster
62. “Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for.” – Barry Neil Kaufman
63. “When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere.” – Emmanuel Dalgher
64. “Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.” – Tom Hopkins
65. “Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.” – Rhonda Byrne
66. “Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.” – Edward Wood
67. “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” – Stephen Richards
68. “Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life, in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.” – Sri Chinmoy
69. “Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
70. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” – Zig Ziglar
71. “Gratitude doesn’t change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
72. “It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.” – Pharrell Williams
73. “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
74. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
75. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
76. “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
77. “Today I choose to live with gratitude for the love that fills my heart, the peace that rests within my spirit, and the voice of hope that says all things are possible.” – Anonymous
78. “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Will Arnett
79. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
80. “The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.” – Hannah Whitall Smith
81. “Gratitude shouldn’t be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.” – Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase
82. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” – Randy Rausch
83. “It’s not happiness that brings us gratitude. It’s gratitude that brings us happiness.” – Anonymous
84. “Whatever we are waiting for—peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance—will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
85. “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer
86. “Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.” – Loretta Young
87. “We have to fill our hearts with gratitude. Gratitude makes everything that we have more than enough.” – Susan L. Taylor
88. “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
89. “When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton
90. “When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.” – Paul J. Meyer
Share these Inspiring Grateful Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.