Gratitude Quotes, Sayings and Thankfulness

Gratitude is often described as a feeling or attitude of being grateful or thankful. In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful but gratefulness that makes us happy.

I searched high and low to create this amazing collection of gratitude quotes. My goal was to compile the most inspiring of quotes, as a reminder of the importance of daily gratitude. Giving thanks is one of the most powerful ways there is to increase an overall feeling of well being. Choosing to focus on gratitude and appreciation increases levels of happiness and life satisfaction.

♥ I will never talk about joy for the rest of my career without talking about gratitude, I have never interviewed a single person who talks about the capacity to really experience and soften into joy who does not actively practice gratitude...Dr. Brene Brown, author of: Daring Greatly, The Gifts Of Imperfection, Power of Vulnerability

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

♥ The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get… Oprah Winfrey

♥ When you feel grateful, you become very good, and then you attract very good things...Plato

♥ Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you…E. Caddy

♥ 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

♥ On a daily basis, find something you are appreciative of or find something you are grateful for. Start a journal. You might even want to call it your appreciation journal or gratitude journal and go to it and write five minutes a day…Michael Losier, author of Law of Attraction

♥ Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life…Northrup Christiane

♥ For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude…Clarence E, Hodges

♥ Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul… Henry Ward Beecher

♥ I'm at that place where it's like, “I can't get any more goodness in my life.” … I feel blessed every second. I go to bed feeling blessed, and I wake up feeling blessed… Ellen DeGeneres

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

♥ Gratitude is a twofold love…love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest…Henry Van Dyke

♥ Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes… Oprah Winfrey

♥ Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality… Alfred Painter

♥ I'm grateful that I feel deeply, because it allows me to experience great pain and great joy. I'm alive!…Wynonna Judd

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

♥ Whatever we are waiting for, peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart…Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

♥ Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic...John Henry

♥ 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

♥ 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

♥ A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves…Henry Ward Beecher

♥ Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty…Doris Day

♥ Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are…Wayne Dyer

♥ When I changed my attitude to gratitude it changed my life for good... Instantlyfamily