Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

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.

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.

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

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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

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.

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

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.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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

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.

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 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.

I believe gratitude leads to happiness.

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

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

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

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.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

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

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

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 is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

Joy is the simplest form of 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.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

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