77 Gratitude Quotes (Thankful Sayings on Life, Joy & Blessings)

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus

He who is contented is rich.

Lao Tzu

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir

Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.

Walt Whitman

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

John Keats

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future.

Seneca

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson

Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold is full of blessings.

William Wordsworth

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.

Douglas Wood

The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

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

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.

Bob Marley

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Seneca

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

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

Voltaire

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

I have yet to find the man who did not do better work under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

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

G. K. Chesterton

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

Oliver Sacks

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Eckhart Tolle

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

I don’t have to chase moments to find happiness — it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Brené Brown

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Viktor Frankl

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work, and my God.

Helen Keller

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

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Wendell Berry

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

Julian of Norwich

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

Maya Angelou

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Mary Oliver

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

E. B. White

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

Rumi

Morning is when I am awake, and there is a dawn in me.

Henry David Thoreau

Our 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 lighted the flame.

Albert Schweitzer

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring.

Leo Buscaglia

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’

A.A. Milne

My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

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

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Jean-Baptiste Massieu

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.

Henry Ward Beecher

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

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

W. T. Purkiser