Wisdom Quotations

Gratitude

Albert Schweitzer:
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.

Buddha:
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Edward Gibbon:
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

Leroy [Satchel] Paige:
[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Margaret Cousins:
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Rabindranath Tagore:
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Thomas Erskine:
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.