When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
— The Gay Science
Quotes About Gratitude
Aesop called gratitude the sign of noble souls. Elie Wiesel wrote that for him every hour is grace, and that he feels gratitude each time he can meet someone and look at their smile. Marcus Aurelius offered a method: think not so much of what you lack as of what you have.
John F. Kennedy held that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. Maya Angelou asked that gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a short grace of thanks for each new morning, for rest and shelter, for health and food, for love and friends. Horace asked whether we count our birthdays with gratitude. Stephen King suggested that perhaps the greatest blessing was never knowing how short the time was. Nietzsche had a darker view of public thanks: when the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
John F. Kennedy held that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. Maya Angelou asked that gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a short grace of thanks for each new morning, for rest and shelter, for health and food, for love and friends. Horace asked whether we count our birthdays with gratitude. Stephen King suggested that perhaps the greatest blessing was never knowing how short the time was. Nietzsche had a darker view of public thanks: when the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
— Emma
Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...
— Our Mutual Friend
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
— Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
— Meditations
For a wise man, I have been told, once said, ‘Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.’ But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.
— Foundation and Empire
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
— The Count of Monte Cristo
Natales grate numeras?(Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
— Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
— Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.
— Mrs. Dalloway
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…
— The Open Door
Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.
— The Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels
The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings—not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling.
— The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so. Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris
— Passions of the Soul
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.