Gratitude Quotes - page 3

I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection. (Frédéric Chopin)
Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness. View quote
Saddam Hussein
My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older. View quote
George Sarton
Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community. View quote
Paul Bloom
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. View quote
Karen Blixen
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. View quote
E. M. Forster
Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique. View quote
Jigoro Kano
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. (Seneca)
Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained. View quote
Arundhati Roy
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history - the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman – we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said. View quote
Lev Artsimovich
A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. View quote
Joseph Wood Krutch
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude. View quote
Thomas Gray
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. View quote
Ralph Barton Perry
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. (Carl Jung)
Gratitude is what we are without a story. View quote
Byron Katie
I 've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning Alas the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. View quote
William Wordsworth
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. View quote
Jacques Maritain
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief. View quote
Euripides