Best 143 quotes in «being thankful quotes» category

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Each year I become more mindful of being thankful for each life experience.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

Gratitude should be felt and experienced sincerely, expressed generously and received graciously.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

If your customers are demanding, be thankful.

If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses.

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

I get hit everyday with people everyday saying I remember this record from that, this changed my life or this record was playing when this happened so I'm thankful for that. On the other side I look at it like I got to do so many things in life I never thought I'd be able to do so who am I to complain about what position I'm in or not in. I gotta be thankful for everything that occurred in my career. That's how I look at it.

I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.

I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.

I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.