Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Ross

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

Gary Sinise

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

Gary Sinise

Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand in times of need to those who willingly sacrifice each day to provide that freedom and security. While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

Frank Knox

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

Isabel Allende

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Irving Berlin

When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.

Irving Kristol

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

Ingrid Bergman

my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Jeremy Taylor

The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

Jeremy Taylor

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

Jeremy Taylor

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Pause and remember - You will make it to the other side of this hardship. One day you will look back with wiser eyes, understanding and gratitude. Hang in there!

A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

George Zimmerman

Nobody notices when things go right.

George Saunders

What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

George Bernard Shaw

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Galileo Galilei

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

Emily Saliers

Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Play the hand you're dealt.

Harrison Ford

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.