50 Thankful Quotes for Practicing Gratitude All Year Long

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

— William Arthur Ward

“Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.”

— Al Jarreau

"Be grateful in your own hearts. That suffices. Thanksgiving has wings, and flies to its right destination.”

— Victor Hugo

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”

— Cicero

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”

— Cicero

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.”

— Reba McEntire

“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

“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 deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”

— William James

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

“This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”

— Maya Angelou

“Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

— Thornton Wilder

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Brault

“Make it a habit to tell people, ‘thank you.’ To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.”

— Ralph Marston

"'Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say.”

— Alice Walker

“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”

— Estonian Proverb

“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”

— Albert Barnes

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”

— Harry A. Ironside

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

— W. T. Purkiser

“Enough is a feast.”

— Buddhist Proverb (related: 101 Buddha Quotes )

“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”

— Charlotte Brontë

"The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”

— Hannah Whitall Smith

“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”

— James Allen

“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

— Karl Barth

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

— Melody Beattie

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank you,’ that would suffice.”

— Meister Eckhart

“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks.”

— William Shakespeare