Famous Quotes & Sayings

Debbie Macomber

Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.

Andre Norton

There's no night without stars.

William Shakespeare

Ingratitude is monstrous.

J. I. Packer

It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Imelda Marcos

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Jack Nicholson

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life,

Jack Kelley

I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.

Jack Kerouac

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Carroll O'Connor

Nothing but the heart can change the heart.

Bella Thorne

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Diana Wynne Jones

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

Diane Ackerman

We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

Booker T. Washington

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Brigitte Bardot

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Brigham Young

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.

Blake Mycoskie

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

Blaise Pascal

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

Charles Spurgeon

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!