Top 40 Gratitude Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

— Melody Beattie

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

3. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

— Rumi

4. “It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

5. “Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day.”

— Rhonda Byrne

6. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

— Doris Day

7. “It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Quotes About Light

8. “Each day provides its own gifts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes

9. “Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes

10. “To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”

— Thomas Merton

11. “When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Quotes About the Body

12. “Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes

13. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meditation Quotes, Yoga Quotes

14. “I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Adversity Quotes

15. “If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Practice Quotes

16. “Never take anything for granted.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes

17. “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

18. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Character Quotes

19. “Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Law Of Attraction Quotes

20. “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”

— Plato

Also featured in: Mind Quotes

21. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Regret Quotes

22. “Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”

— Robin S. Sharma

23. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes

24. “Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

25. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”

— Brené Brown

26. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

27. “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

— Sarah Caldwell

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes, Graduation Quotes

28. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Forgiveness Quotes

29. “Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.”

— Radhanath Swami

Also featured in: Humility Quotes

30. “Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

31. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Pain Quotes, Character Quotes

32. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Positive Quotes

33. “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Health Quotes

34. “Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.”

— Joyce Meyer

35. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes

36. “Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.”

— Rhonda Byrne

37. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”

— Anton Chekhov

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Summer Quotes, Winter Quotes

38. “If we show Allah just a little bit of gratitude, He tells us, ‘I will increase you, and increase you, and increase you, I swear to it. If you could only show Me the least bit of gratitude.’”

— Nouman Ali Khan

39. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Teacher Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

40. “Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.”

— Kurt Cobain

Also featured in: Appreciation Quotes

41. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

42. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Mindfulness Quotes

43. “When you borrow a man’s car, always return it with a tank of gas.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Respect Quotes

44. “As a rule, man is a fool. When it’s hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.”

— Benjamin Disraeli