Quotes about Gratitude

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

My wife... so grateful for that. Nothing can be bad - going home and having someone making you feel like the best every day.

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another's burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.

Sitting there in the Alabama winter with my mouth full of cold turnip and mud, I could see at least for a moment how if you ever took truly to heart the ultimate goodness and joy of things, even at their bleakest, the need to praise someone or something for it would be so great that you might even have to go out and speak of it to the birds of the air.

My day has been a pleasant one. My joys have far exceeded my sorrows and my friends have brought me far more than my enemies have taken from me.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!