Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.

Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Greet every morning with open arms and say thanks every night with a full heart. Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I believe gratitude leads to happiness.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.