Famous Quotes & Sayings

Therese of Lisieux

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Therese of Lisieux

Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

Terry Taylor

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

Terry Taylor

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

Terry Taylor

The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

Lady Gaga

Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.

Joel Osteen

To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

Jonathan Jackson

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Jonathan Cain

I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord.

Jonathan Edwards

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

Jonathan Edwards

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

Kaspar Hauser

Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

Kate Atkinson

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

Julie Andrews

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

Judith Orloff

Adopting the behaviors and habits of surrendered people helps us improve our relationships, feel love and gratitude, get healthier, give up destructive people and behavior patterns, and become more successful and influential in our lives and careers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as benefits go.

Judith Martin

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

Judith Martin

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Joseph Hall

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Kathe Kollwitz

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

Katherine Heigl

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

James Macdonald

Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.

John McCain

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

John Ortberg

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

Hans Selye

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

John Maynard Keynes

The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.

John Lancaster Spalding

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

Thankfulness and gratitude are the foundation of character and being able to serve others.

Jim Ramstad

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Rohn

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.

Jim Rohn

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

Bill Clinton

. . . All of us who worked to support peace in Northern Ireland owe her our gratitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues

Aberjhani

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.