Home / Topics / Grateful Quotes

Grateful Quotes

Browse 2490 quotes about Grateful.

Grateful Quotes

“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”

Should Artist Games Heaven Common Attitude Painting Fairs Direct Grateful Forgiving Critics Dues Impression Remarks Pseudo Fair Game

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.”

Ifs Should Belief Grows Common Half Cutting Sea Rivers Grateful Fishes Contrary Boat Lakes Fishing Worms Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.”

World May Hard Motivational Success Leadership Common Secret Leader This World Hard Work Grateful Finals Be Grateful Suggestions Commonplace Secret To Success

Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.”

Men May Matter Easy Justice Common Kindness Regard Grateful Bottom Wit Borders Injury Why Not Excess Righteous Screws Good Will Screw Ups Ingratitude Mischievous Common Things

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.”

Writing Doe Common Speech Grateful Thanks Inadequate

Book:Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

“[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore.”

World Order Common Security Grateful Prosperity Focused Regions Partnership Singapore

Author:Barack Obama

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”

Source: Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues

“There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.”

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.”

World Children Book War Hands Common Couple Periods Hundred Grateful Library War Of The Worlds Pockets Sanity World War Ii World War I Navy Armed Services

Author:James A. Michener

“Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]”

Men Enjoy Forget Common Pay Missing Gratitude Blessing Benefits Praise Grateful Appreciation Common Man

Author:Izaak Walton