Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
— Nick Vujicic
Like beautiful homes, cute babies, or noble careers helping others, books can make us feel like we mean something positive, and in gratitude, we truly love them.
— Nell Zink
The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
— Nancy Sinatra
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
— Nancy Friday
I promise not to let you down. I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude.
— Mwai Kibaki
I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.
— Mira Sorvino
Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
— Michelle Obama
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
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.
— Maurice Druon
Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.
— Marshall Goldsmith
Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.
— Marquis de Lafayette
In my line of work, I frequently communicate with CEOs and their executive assistants, and nowhere is the need for gratitude more clear.
— Mark Goulston
I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.
— Margaret MacMillan
I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
— Mandy Patinkin
I can't express in words my gratitude towards Arsenal fans for all they have done for me in my years in London.
— Lukas Podolski
Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
— Louie Schwartzberg
'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.
— Lionel Shriver
These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.
— Nelson A. Miles
I would like to express my deep gratitude to the people of Bijepur Assembly constituency for having showered their blessings on the BJD.
— Naveen Patnaik
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
— Nancy Grace
I believe gratitude leads to happiness.
— Nafessa Williams
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
— Montesquieu
I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.
— Mike Posner
We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.
— Meir Soloveichik
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
— Marya Mannes
I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.
I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.
— Marie Kondo
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.
— Margaret Heffernan
Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are.
— Mandy Ingber
I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
— Lucy Walker
I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
— Lionel Hampton
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
— Nancy Gibbs
I have embraced every day with gratitude.
— Nadya Suleman
To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
— Monica Cruz
I have so much gratitude that I get to do this for a living and that I actually have fans who come to the shows and buy the records and support me online.
— Mike Portnoy
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
— Max Richter
I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.
— Mary Oliver
I have a lot of deficiencies, but gratitude is not one of them.
There is something calming and emotionally restoring when you focus on gratitude for a known deed that helped you, instead of fear of the unknown.
I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I was the youngest of all her daughters, and she has treated me as if I were the eldest, so that my whole soul is filled with the most tender gratitude.
— Marie Antoinette
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.
— Lucy Stone
Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
— Loretta Young
