Best gratitude & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.”

Way Looks Turns Wish Situation Example Gratitude Grateful Work Out Outcomes Silver Be Grateful Positive Outcome

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?”

Men Persons Found Wish Effort Blood He Man Honor Gratitude Bravery Property Debt Defense Generous Exertion Indebted

Book:The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography

Source: The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography

“One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.”

Wish Gratitude Ingratitude

Author:Pierre Corneille

“It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

Ifs Mind Wish Gratitude Please Painful Favors Vanity Sensations Wiser Accord Flattered

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.”

Ifs Feels Heart May Has Beens Hands Wish Gratitude Appreciation Former Glorious Take Me Honorable Obliged Prosperous Love And Gratitude Heart Full Of Love

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!”

Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

“The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.”

Years Mind Matter Moments Wish Clear Magic Gratitude Quiet Crucial New Year Joyful What Matters Astonishment New Year Wishes Shortness Shortness Of Life

Author:Martha Beck

“You just send your love and gratitude to everything that came through the experience and you wish it the best. If you don't wish it the best, then you're only holding on to its failure, you're only holding on to something that needs something from you, whereas if you wish it the best, it's not about you anymore.”

Ifs Needs Wish Gratitude Holding On Love And Gratitude

Author:Jason Mraz

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

Knows Doe Reality Remember Dies Lost Wish Grief Gratitude Essentials Highest Realization Tribute Loved And Lost

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.”

Should Language Wish Duty Gratitude All Things Army Confederate

Book:General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous

Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous

“Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.”

“Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.”

Life Is Wish Gratitude Spite Fulfilled Fulfilled Life

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”

“Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.”

Thinking Wish Gratitude Grateful Merit Thank You

Author:Catullus

“Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves.”

Source: The Journey Home

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse”

People Ifs Feels Believe Courses Wish Difficult Gratitude Ideals Compare Accomplished

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the eyes of birds when we wish them to sing?”

May Eye Wish Sorrow Gratitude Bird Instruction

Author:Jean Paul

“The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.”

“Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?”

Ifs Wish Example Perspective Arms Gratitude Losing Grateful Why Not Be Grateful Catastrophe Inconvenience

Author:Eric Allin Cornell

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