Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert SchweitzerAs we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.
John F. KennedyI thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole FranceThe shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham LincolnGod gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"
William Arthur WardIt is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis StevensonGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind, yet strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil GibranThank 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.
James Russell LowellPride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward BeecherI'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
Billy GrahamLet 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.
Buddha