Top 200 Appreciation Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

102. “Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.”

— Mooji

103. “The best things in life aren’t things.”

— John Ruskin

104. “You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.”

— Joel Osteen

105. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

— Oscar Wilde

106. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

107. “Music fills the infinite between two souls.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

108. “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

— Carl R. Rogers

109. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

— Ray Bradbury

110. “I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

111. “Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.”

— Tony Robbins

112. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

— Henry van Dyke

113. “My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.”

— Louise Hay

114. “Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

115. “Don’t waste your time; it is too short, valuable, and irreplaceable.”

— Mike Murdock

116. “When you see your happiness in the happiness of others, that’s when you will be truly happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

117. “I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I’ve ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn’t get any better than that.”

— Warren Buffett

118. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent van Gogh

119. “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”

— Paulo Coelho

120. “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

121. “I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

122. “Do all things with love.”

— Og Mandino

123. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

— Randy Pausch

124. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

125. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

— Vincent van Gogh

126. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

127. “Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

128. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.”

— Maya Angelou

129. “Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

— Kālidāsa

130. “In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

131. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

— Khalil Gibran

132. “Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak

133. “Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.”

— Brian Tracy

134. “Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.”

— Anonymous

135. “Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.”

— Denis Waitley

136. “Libraries are our friends.”

— Neil Gaiman

137. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”

— Rumi

138. “Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.”

— Peace Pilgrim

139. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

140. “Enjoy everything. Need nothing.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

141. “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

— Khalil Gibran

142. “Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

143. “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”

— Thomas Paine

144. “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”

— John Green

145. “If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

146. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”

— William Arthur Ward

147. “Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.”

— Deepak Chopra

148. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

— Walt Whitman

149. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

150. “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

— Charlie Chaplin