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We’re grateful for you … relentlessly grateful.

In the United States, we are celebrating Thanksgiving and Gratitude Day. To mark these occasions, we collected our favorite quotes on gratitude to share with you.

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
– Aesop

“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
– Amy Collette

“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
– Deitrich Bonheiffer

“Develop an attitude of gratitude. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.”
– Brian Tracy

“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington

“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.”
– Robert Holden

“Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle.”
– Mary Davis

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou

“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.”
– Eileen Caddy

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“If the only prayer you ever say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
– Meister Eckhart

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
– Rumi

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.”
– Gautama Buddha

Quotes on Gratitude

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth

“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
– Jacques Maritain 

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

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum

“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

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
– Melanie Beattie

“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
– Jean Baptiste Massieu

“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
— Plato

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
— Maya Angelou

“The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see.”
–- Dr. Rober Holden

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
— Oprah Winfrey

Thank you!

“‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
– Alice Walker

“Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned, or demanded – those wonderful things that we take for granted.”
– Renée Paule

“Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity.”
– Eckhart Tolle

We hope you enjoyed our quotes on gratitude.  We are so grateful to you, our readers, to our clients and customers, to our teachers, colleagues and friends.