Thank You Quotes

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
Alfred Painter

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

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

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

For it is in giving that we receive.
Francis of Assisi

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is.
Ernest Hemingway

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
~David Thomas

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

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
Seneca

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

You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.
Buddha

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius

Let us be thankful for the fools.
But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain

Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
James Russell Lowell

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

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

If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
John Dryden

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

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

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

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins