Best gratitude & return Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.”

Should Mind Doe Together Remember Turns Ability Forget Virtue Return Gratitude Benefits Occasions Never Forget Inward Forget It Readiness Doers Receiver Acknowledgment

Author:Pierre Charron

“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”

Men Done Values Mistake Kindness Pride Return Gratitude Agree Favors Occasions Giver Receiver Computation Agree Upon

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.”

Return Gratitude Demand Goodness Labor Supreme Instance Peculiar Signals Piety

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I have been blessed in my life and want to return my gratitude unto my Lord.”

Want Has Beens Lord Return Gratitude Blessed

Author:Jonathan Cain

“America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.”

Men Wells Enough America Fighting Nations Causes Loss Sacrifice Return Gratitude Men And Women Ultimate Paid Blessed Soldier Debt Battlefields Great Nations Military Service Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Allen Boyd

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”

“Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”

“Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.”

“There is always something to be grateful for. Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn't ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you.”

Love Giving Doe Asks Love Is Conditions Return Gratitude Pure Limits Romantic Flow Grateful Boundaries Inspirational Love Be Grateful Being Thankful Pure Love Back Love

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.”

Inspirational Inspiring Return Gratitude Grateful Thankfulness Indication Truest Gratefulness

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“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.”

“Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.”

Matter Helping Home Remember Courses Ability Sacrifice Childhood Conditions Talent Return Gratitude Fortune Helping Others Pleasant Good Fortune Harmonious Another Life Home Life

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.”

Virtue Return Praying Gratitude Mercy And Love Delight Pity Distress Thankfulness Peace And Love

Author:William Blake

“Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.”

Needs Feels States Moments Helping Natural Return Gratitude Appreciation Joyfulness

Book:Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life

Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life

“It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified. Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure.”

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Author:J. I. Packer

“Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.”

“It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.”

Knows Love Persons Desire Return Easier Gratitude Prove Expectations Including Proof Compensation Love Someone

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.”

Giving Heart Feelings Form Three Expression Return Gratitude Thankfulness Giving In

Book:Maxims of Life and Business

Source: Maxims of Life and Business

“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.”

Knows Light Pain Evil Pleasure Darkness Know How Return Gratitude Succeed Light And Darkness Accommodate Light And Dark Pain And Pleasure

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.”

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