Quotes about Gratitude

Sometimes, when God blessed me with something, I would feel guilty. Then I realized this was wrong, because a blessing is a blessing is a blessing.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

With the many blessings I've received through football, my wife, Ashli, and I started the Mike Evans Family Foundation to be a blessing to others. We don't do it for the recognition. It just makes us feel good to give back.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

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

Once you are born with a handicap, even if the handicap is resolved - as it was in my case - you are left with the benefit of having had it. By contrast, my mother - who had nothing bad happen to her - was a very disabled person. She was an appalling human being who squandered every blessing that God had given her.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Blacks should feel fortunate to be citizens of this country. We are blessed, not enslaved, and those who say otherwise are enslaved only by their own hatred.

The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.