Gratitude Quotes

"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
-Roberto Benigni

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
-Cicero

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."
-Felix Frankfurter

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

"Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared."
-Dennis Prager

"Ingratitude is treason to mankind."
-James Thomson

"Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies."
-Charles E. Jefferson

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
-Jacques Maritain

"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."
-Mark Twain

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
-William Arthur Ward

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."
-Sallust

"Shared values and common interests - much more can be built on these than on gratitude alone."
-Horst Koehler

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude."
-Clarence E. Hodges

"Pharmacists in the state of Vermont deserve our gratitude. They've extended their faith, good will and free medicine. But we can't continue to depend upon their good will and faith."
-Joshua Slen

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."
-Gertrude Stein

"We owe the community a debt of gratitude for what it did for this school. This field is great now, and it puts us in a class of schools that have elite facilities."
-Mike Dimatteo

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."
-Joseph Wood Krutch

"The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children."
-Nancy Friday

"It's a show of gratitude. It's probably going to be an annual thing."
-Robert Meyer

"I extend a large debt of gratitude to all those that have helped us with donations and fundraising."
-Keith Reynolds

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Linda Franklin will be missed. She was an extraordinary example of living with joy and gratitude no matter what came her way."
-David Wray

"It's sure nice to have them home. We owe them a real debt of gratitude."
-Rex Bulloch

"(It's) to express thanks and gratitude in a practical way."
-Mark Baird