Gratitude

• Gratitude is the heart's memory. —French Proverb
• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. —Charles Kingsley
• Gratitude is heaven itself. —William Blake
• A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer. —Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. —Gracian
• He that urges gratitude pleads the cause both of God and men, for without it we can neither be sociable nor religious. —Seneca
• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. —Aesop
• If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. —Meister Eckhart
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. —Cicero
• I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. —Kahlil Gibran