Gratitude & Thank You Quotes for Letters

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”

— Amy Collette

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Cicero

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

— Ralph H. Blum

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

— A.A. Milne

“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”

— Dalai Lama

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.”

— Jim Rohn

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

— Karl Barth

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

— Aesop

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you'?”

— William Arthur Ward

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

— Voltaire

“Count your blessings, not your problems.”

— Unknown

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”

— Charlotte Bronte

“True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.'”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.”

— Robert Braathe

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Lionel Hampton

“Take full account of what excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”

— Eileen Caddy

“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being.”

— Jen Sincero

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”

— Tony Robbins

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

— Thornton Wilder

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

— Willie Nelson

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Start each day with a grateful heart.”

— Unknown

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

— John Wooden

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

— Melody Beattie

“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows.”

— Alan Cohen

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

— Cynthia Ozick

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust

“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

— Irving Berlin

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

— Doris Day

“Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

— Margaret Cousins

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

— W.T. Purkiser

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.”

— Melody Beattie

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

— John F. Kennedy

“None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.”

— David A. Bednar

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”

— William James

“Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”

— Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”

— Yogi Bhajan

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”

— Melody Beattie

“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.”

— John Ortberg

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

— John Milton

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Brault

“Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation.”

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

— Rumi

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”

— Germany Kent

“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.”

— Zig Ziglar

“The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.”

— Mary Davis

“Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.”

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“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

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.”

— Maya Angelou

“The struggle ends when gratitude begins.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.”

— Alice Walker

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”

— Hansa Proverb

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

— Randy Pausch

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

— Unknown

“Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you.”

— Wayne Dyer

“Gratitude changes everything.”

— Unknown

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.”

— Deepak Chopra

“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

— David Steindl-Rast

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”

— Alphonse Karr

“Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.”

— Raheel Farooq

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”

— Jean-Baptiste Massieu

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Seneca

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

— William Arthur Ward

“Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.”

— Bethany Hamilton

“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.”

— Charles Schwab

“A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.”

— Unknown

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy.”

— David Steindl-Rast

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

— Epictetus

“Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Eckhart Tolle

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

— William Blake

“For me, every hour is grace.”

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Dalai Lama

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”

— Jacques Maritain

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

— Johannes A. Gaertner

“There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.”

— Unknown

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it's all an experience.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”

— Robert Quillen

“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”

— Gerald Good

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

— William Faulkner

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”

— Rumi

“When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.”

— Elie Wiesel

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

— Maya Angelou

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

— Denis Waitley