Thanks

48 quotes.

• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

  Cicero

• Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

  Gertrude Stein

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

  Willie Nelson

• A razor can't be sharpened on a piece of velvet.

  Anonymous

• A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

  Cicero

• A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.

  Anonymous

• Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

  George Crane

• Be thankful that your job is a little harder than you like.

  Anonymous

• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

• Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible.

  Charles Dickens

• Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get what we deserve.

  Anonymous

• Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

  Plato

• Good words cost no more than bad.

  Thomas Fuller

• Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

  J.B. Massieu

• Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

  Sam N. Hampton

• Gratitude preserves old friendships, and procures new.

  Anonymous

• Gratitude takes three forms: A feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

  Anonymous

• 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.

  Melody Beattie

• He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and happy mind.

  Thomas Secker

• He who gives to me teaches me to give.

  Danish Proverb

• He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

  Charron

• If you have nothing for which to be thankful, make up your mind that there's something wrong with you.

  Anonymous

• If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

  Anonymous

• If you think you haven't much to be thankful for, why not be thankful for some of the things you DON'T have.

  Anonymous

• It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.

  Anonymous

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but there echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tse

• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

• No man is so tall that he never need stretch and none to small that he never need stoop.

  Danish Proverb

• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

  Senaca

• Nothing is worth more than this day.

  Goethe

• One good turn deserves another.

  Petronius

• One kind word can warm three winter months.

  Japanese Proverb

• Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

  Arnold H. Glasow

• Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.

  Henry N. Ferguson

• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Anonymous

• Thanks for the last time we were together.

  Danish Greeting

• The best portion of a good man's life--his little, namesless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  Richard Bach

• The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

  Henry Thoreau

• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

  Anonymous

• The sweetest sound of all is praise.

  Xenophon

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.

  Seneca

• There's always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you're not one of your creditors.

  Anonymous

• There's one thing for which you should be abundantly thankful -- only you and God have all the facts about yourself.

  Anonymous

• To recieve honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

  George MacDonald

• We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

  Bill Vaugham

• Your bounty is beyond my speaking But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.

  Nicholas Rowe

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