Quotes about Appreciation

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

I learned from a very early age that it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers. In the process, of course, we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did it was worth something. One thing my mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money: they just didn't spend it.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

Would the Lord have dressed the flowers with a beauty that runs freely to meet our eyes if it were wrong to be moved by such beauty? Would He have endowed them with so sweet a fragrance that flows freely into our nostrils if it were wrong to be moved by the pleasantness of such fragrance?

It is a beastly business when people start eating without prayer, and when they are full, they run out without as much as mentioning God's name.

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

Those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.