Gratitude Quotes

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly.. is having to accept it.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucaudl (1613-1690)

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Josef Stalin (1879-1953) USSR dictator.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure but because obligation is a pain.

Sr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing the praises of my devourer?

Feoder Dostoievski (1821-1881) Russian novelist.

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

N.P. Willis.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Seneca.

In noble hearts the feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion.

Poincelot.

A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer.

Lessing.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues, the most capital of all duties, and use the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

Bate.

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.

Romaine.

Our thanks should be as fervent for mercies received, as our petitions for mercies sought.

C. Simmons.

He that urges gratitude pleads the cause both of God and men, for without it we can neither be sociable nor religious.

Seneca.

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

Secker.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Charron.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not on our power to repay it.

Franklin.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Cicero.

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.

Pope.

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

Seneca.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Mad. Swetchine.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our begin, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Seneca.

O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.

Shakespeare.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Jeremy Taylor.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Colton.