Thank You Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For all that has been - thanks. For all that shall be - yes.
-Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

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

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