Top 100 Grateful Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.”

— Zig Ziglar

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2. “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.”

— Melody Beattie

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3. “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

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4. “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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5. “Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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6. “Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.”

— Jack Canfield

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7. “Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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8. “That’s the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.”

— Louise Hay

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9. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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10. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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11. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

— Jim Valvano

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12. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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13. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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14. “What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”

— Max Lucado

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15. “My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.”

— Louise Hay

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16. “I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.”

— Louise Hay

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17. “It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”

— Elisabeth Elliot

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18. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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19. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Robert Holden

21. “Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.”

— Thomas Merton

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22. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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23. “Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”

— Brian Tracy

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24. “God is good all the time. Every time.”

— Russell Wilson

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25. “I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.”

— Joyce Meyer

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26. “Rest and be thankful.”

— William Wordsworth

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27. “Thank God in advance for what’s already yours.”

— Denzel Washington

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28. “What a long strange trip it’s been.”

— Jerry Garcia

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29. “If you only say one prayer in a day, make it, ‘Thank You.’”

— Rumi

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30. “Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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31. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”

— Shauna Niequist

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32. “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

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33. “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”

— John Green

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34. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”

— Hafez

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35. “To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”

— Tia Walker

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36. “For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

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37. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”

— Alan Cohen

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38. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

— Robert Breault

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39. “End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.”

— Clint Walker

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40. “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

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41. “What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”

— Brené Brown

42. “I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.”

— Mike Rowe

43. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

— Voltaire

44. “If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.”

— Esther Hicks

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45. “Before you complain today, be grateful you have breath to complain with.”

— Lecrae

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46. “Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.”

— Chris Prentiss

47. “The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.”

— Eva Burrows

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48. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

— Maya Angelou

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49. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

50. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

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