The words and messages in these appreciation quotes and sayings can help express your thoughts of gratitude.
If you want to find happiness find gratitude. Steve Maraboli
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. John Dryden
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for this day and for the hour, and the minute.Maya Angelou
So many friendly things are done In this good world 'twixt sun and sun That, do our kindest day by day, We cannot half our debt repay. ~Oliver Marble Gale
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. Alfred Painter
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. Albert Clarke
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway
Thank you for brightening my world.Anonymous
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero
For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi
For all that has been - thanks. For all that shall be - yes.
-Dag Hammarskjold
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. John Henry Jowett
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner
You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy. Buddha
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucius
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is Thank You that would suffice. Meister Eckhart
Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
James Russell Lowell
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca
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
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas
Let us be kinder to one another.
Aldous Huxley
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
-Marcus Aurelius
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. William Makepeace Thackeray
Gratitude is the best attitude. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.
Joseph Addison
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. Hansa Proverb
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -William Shakespeare
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. - Jean Baptiste Massieu
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. Thomas Jefferson
Anyone can show up when you're happy. But the ones who stay by your side when your heart falls apart, they are your true friends. - Brigitte Nicole
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. James Allen
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Margaret Cousins
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
Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else's fairy tale.. Wale Ayeni
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carroll
Thank you for the good times, the days you filled with pleasure. Thank you for fond memories, and for feelings I’ll always treasure. -Karl Fuchs
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. Malayan Proverb
Give thanks for a little & you will find a lot. Hausa Proverb
That he may have something to share with those in need. Ephesians 4:25
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom. Marcel Proust
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. Anatole France
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." Benjamin Disraeli
"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver." Thomas a Kempis
Funny Thank You Quotes
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. —Ethel Watts Mumford
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. Mark Twain
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Thank You God Quotes
God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you. William Arthur ward
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman
Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven. The Bible, James 1:17
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most complete prayer. - Gotthold Lessing
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? G.K. Chesterton
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell
Dear God Thank you for loving me unconditionally.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! Henry Ward Beecher
Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. George Herbert
Dear God, I wanna take a minute, not to ask for anything from you. But simply to say Thank You for all I have.
O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. —William Shakespeare
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, Ephesians 5:1
Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, Ephesians 5:16
What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory. —Joseph Hall
Gratitude Quotes
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."G.K. Chesterton
Enough' is a feast.Buddhist Proverb
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.Epictetus
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.A.A. Milne
Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.Rumi
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Epicurus
Religious Thank You Quotes
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. E. E. Cummings
And may the Lord reward you for your kindness ... (Ruth 1:8, NLT)
May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully for what you have done. (Ruth 2:12, NLT)
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus 1 Corinthians 1:4
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" William Arthur Ward
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him. Rabindranath Tagore
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. Harry Ironside
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. Ephesians 1:16
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you. Philippians 1:3
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you. Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers. 1 Thessalonians 1:2
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. 2 Thessalonians 1:3
The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge! Ruth 2:12
Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing. 2 Samuel 2:6
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. Isaiah 38:19
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. A.A. Hodge
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive. A.B. Simpson
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. John Bunyan
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united. A.B. Simpson
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley
The careless soul receives the Father's gifts as if it were a way things had of dropping into his hand... yet he is ever complaining, as if someone were accountable for the problems which meet him at every turn. For the good that comes to him, he gives no thanks - who is there to thank? At the disappointments that befall him he grumbles - there must be someone to blame! George Macdonald
Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather giving of thanks (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise. Charles Hodge
Friendship Thank You Quotes
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. —Thomas Aquinas
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. —John F. Kennedy
A friend is what the heart needs all the time. —Henry Van Dyke
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. – William Shakespeare
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. – Herodotus
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C.S. Lewis
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. Grace Pulpit
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one. C.S. Lewis
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wedding Thank You Quotes
We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
"How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!" George Elliston
It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.
-Jane Austen
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
-Mark Twain
On this blessed day, our hearts are filled not only with love and joy for each other, but to be able to share this moment with all of you.
-Christy Murphy
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
-Emily Brontë
Birthday Thank You Quotes
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim
There will be many loving thoughts hovering around you like Angels today.
J.R. Macduff
A gift with a kind countenance is a double present.
Thomas Fuller
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection
Pindar
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Famous Thank You Quotes
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
A.A. Milne
Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. William Shakespeare
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. William Shakespeare
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
JFK
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
Tiny Buddha