Gratitude is a soul-healer and a life-changer.
It’s something we focus on once a year during Thanksgiving, but, really, gratitude should be cultivated year-round.
After all, being grateful for what one already has makes one worthy of more.
However, maintaining an attitude of gratitude all year long isn’t always easy, which is why I thought I’d share some inspirational quotes about gratitude with you.
You can print these out and hang them up, share them, pin them, plus them, or tweet them. Do whatever you want with them that will help you remember to practice them. Enjoy!
Quotes About Gratitude
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~ Cynthia Ozick
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
~ G.K. Chesterton
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
~ Naomi Williams
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
~ Gerald Good
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?
~ William A. Ward
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
All that we behold is full of blessings.
~ William Wordsworth
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
~ Estonian Proverb
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
~ Alfred Painter
I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.
~ Mike Ericksen
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
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world.
~ Terri Guillemets
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
~ William Faulkner
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~ W.T. Purkiser
Gratitude is an opener of locked-up blessings.
~ Marianne Williamson
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.
~ Thomas Fuller
The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
~ Charles Schwab
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~ Eric Hoffer
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~ Charles Dickens
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~ François de La Rochefoucauld
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~ Epictetus
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
~ Robert Brault
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
~ Willie Nelson
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
Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.
~ Robert Braathe
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
~ Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
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
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
~ William James
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
~ Meister Eckhart
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
~ Gertrude Stein
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
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
~ A.A. Milne
I would be truly grateful if you shared these quotes about gratitude with others. Together, we can change the world one “thank you” at a time.
Many blessings,
P.S. If you’d like some inspiration to get you and your family started with practicing gratitude, I have a free printable called 30 Days of Thanking God that has 30 inspirational cards thanking God for a variety of blessings he has give us. I think you’ll enjoy it.