“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice.”

— Meister Eckhart

“There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.”

— Joseph Addison

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

— Wallace Wattles

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

— Aesop

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“People who can sincerely be thankful for things which they own in imagination have real faith. They will get rich; they will cause the creation of whatever they want.”

— Wallace Wattles

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

— Voltaire

“O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”

— William Shakespeare

“Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

— Charles Dickens

“Gratitude will...keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought. [It] will keep you from...the error of thinking that the supply of riches is limited - and to think that would be fatal to your hopes.”

— Wallace Wattles

“You have no cause for anything but gratitude and joy.”

— The Buddha

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not. But rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”

— Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco