Quotes about Gratitude
You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.
- Abraham Lincoln
God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain
- Aesop
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
- Aesop
No gratitude from the wicked.
- Aesop
You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.
- Aesop
Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
- Aesop
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
- Alain de Botton
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
- Desmond Tutu
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
if there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer