GRATITUDE

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(983 votes)  Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(928 votes)  When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(895 votes)  Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(842 votes)  If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(630 votes)  I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(609 votes)  Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius
310-10395, Latin Poet, Man of Letters

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(593 votes)  Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. [Matthew]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(574 votes)  In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(562 votes)  Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(548 votes)  Gratitude is the heart's memory.

French Proverb
Sayings of French Origin

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(546 votes)  We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(545 votes)  Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

William John Bennett
1943-, American Federal Official

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(543 votes)  That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn
1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM

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(534 votes)  Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all.

Christopher Leach
American Poet

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(533 votes)  Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(528 votes)  See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(521 votes)  Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(518 votes)  Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(515 votes)  I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

Nicolas Cage
1964-, American Actor

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(508 votes)  One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(507 votes)  Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(507 votes)  The public have neither shame or gratitude.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(504 votes)  Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Bobby Hull
American Hockey Player

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(502 votes)  One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(500 votes)  Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

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(499 votes)  We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist

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(493 votes)  It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Fyodor Dostoevski
1821-1881, Russian Novelist

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(492 votes)  Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Joseph Stalin
1879-1953, Georgian-born Soviet Leader

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(490 votes)  Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
American Author

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(489 votes)  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
1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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(488 votes)  For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

Clarence E. Hodges

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(488 votes)  Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(484 votes)  One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1906-, American Author

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(483 votes)  Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(479 votes)  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
American Author

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(476 votes)  Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

James Thomson
1700-1748, Scottish Poet

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(473 votes)  Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
American Author

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(473 votes)  This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(467 votes)  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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie
American Author

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(467 votes)  To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes
c.383-322 BC, Greek Orator

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(465 votes)  Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

Nathaniel P. Willis
1806-1867, Polish American Poet, writer, editor

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(463 votes)  There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Ralph H. Blum
American Author

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(462 votes)  Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ''Joy is not in things, it is in us.''

Joan Borysenko
American Clinical Psychologist, Author

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(460 votes)  Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

Courtland Milloy

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(458 votes)  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
American Medical Doctor

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(457 votes)  Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain
1882-1973, French Philosopher

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(454 votes)  Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Edward F. Halifax
1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman

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(453 votes)  Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Elizabeth Carter

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(445 votes)  True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -

George R. Hendrick

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(444 votes)  Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Terry Lynn Taylor

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