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

""Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." Gertrude Stein"

""Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." Buddha"

""Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey"

""The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." William James"

""At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." Albert Schweitzer"

""He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus"

"The way to develop the best in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."

""Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." Fred De Witt Van Amburgh"

""The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it." Michael Josephson"

""Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie"

""If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." Gerald Good"

""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." Frank A. Clark"

""Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." Eckhart Tolle"

""Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens"

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

""Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Robert Brault"

""If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." Robert Quillen"

""'Enough' is a feast." Buddhist proverb"

""I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton"

""Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." William Arthur Ward"

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be, That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning."

"As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?"

"L'ingratitude attire les reproches comme la reconnaissance attire de nouveaux bienfaits."

"Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet."

"Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est."

"Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!"

"Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas. Et melius nulla quæritur arte favor."

"Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis."

"La reconnaissance est la mémoire du cœur."

"The still small voice of gratitude."

"Gratitude is expensive."

"Praise the bridge that carried you over."

"Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum."

"If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!"

"Did you ever think of the reason why the Psalms of David have come, like winged angels, down across all the realms and ages,— why they make the key-note of grateful piety in every Christian's soul, wherever he lives? Why? Because they are so full of gratitude. " Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men!""

"The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you."

"We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres."

"To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing."

"Thankfulness is the tune of angels."

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child."

"Let but the commons hear this testament— Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read— And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue."

"Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done."

"O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

"Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enroll'd In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!"