Quotes about Gratitude

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

I'm saying that we don't know how God protects us. How he is there for us, but he is. We live our life seeing only our perspective—seeing our circumstances and judging God by what happens to us. But what if we judged God by what didn't happen to us? What if we started asking . . . God, what is your view? What did you protect me from?

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

And I'm part of the generation of South Africans who feel we're lucky to be alive.

You can never out-give God.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer." "The law of Nature is, Do the thing and you shall have the power; but they who do not the thing have not the power.