Quotes about gratitude

Having one’s eyes opened doesn’t make one grateful.

It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.

"It is so easy a thing to give—only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive."

There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

Do not count what you have lost. Count only what you still have.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Sit back down — and for God's sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don't have my years of practice. Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible — because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

People are rarely grateful for a demonstration of their credulity.

My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.

And yet less thanks have we than you. Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

... maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly all the time, is having to accept it.'''