46 Gratitude Quotes to be Thankful for!

Daily, I make sure that I openly acknowledge the things in my life that I am grateful for, and over the years I have collected a number of fantastic famous Gratitude Quotes. I hope you like them…

Including famous quotes of gratitude that might inspire you and move you towards manifesting your destiny too, this collection has been put together after searching to find the finest. There are hundreds of gratitude quotes, but I have selected the best so that you don’t have to plough through pages to find a gem.

Find a Famous Quotation of Gratitude
Quotes on gratitude can be inspirational and helpful when you are feeling grateful – and when you are not, and maybe need a nudge. Perhaps this one from William A. Ward is one of the best from my list:-

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

Inspirational Quotes of Gratitude
If you have seen The Secret movie many times, then you may even be able to quote from some of the teachers. Here are a couple that stand out:

“Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about”
Dr John F Demartini

“Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life”
Marci Shimoff

To Express Gratefulness Famous Quotes help
It is true that the more you are thankful and express your gratefulness for your life and everything in it, the more you add energy to the vibrations you are sending out – and the more the Universe sends back to you. Here is a famous quote of gratitude from one of my favourite old books: The Science of Getting Rich.

“The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when
good things come to us, the more good things we will receive,
and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply
is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into
closer touch with the source from which the blessings come”
Wallace D Wattles

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

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

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul”
Henry Ward Beecher

“Gratitude is the heart's memory “
Jean Baptiste Massieu

“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving”
H.U. Westermayer

“Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live”
Jackie Windspear

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

“It’s been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning …… what am I grateful for …… and I’m not just thinking about them …… I’m feeling the feelings of gratitude”
James Arthur Ray

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice”
Meister Eckhart

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
G.K. Chesterton

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

“As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world”
Adabella Radici

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink”
G.K. Chesterton

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Praise the bridge that carried you over”
George Colman

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

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get”
Frank A. Clark

“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 is the best attitude”
Author Unknown

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

“Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices.”
Thomas Fuller

“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance”
Joseph Addison

“I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart”
Henry Clay

“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much”
Estonian Proverb

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings”
Eric Hoffer

“Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims”
Rabindranath Tagore

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melodie Beattie

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors”
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

“Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer”
Verbena Woods

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted”
Aldous Huxley

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them”
Chinese Proverb

“Thanks are justly due for boons unbought”
Ovid

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican”
H.L. Mencken

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it”
William Arthur Ward

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

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

“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

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

I hope you can use some of these wonderful Gratitude Quotes as inspiration and a reminder of the how blessed we really are.