Blessings Quotes

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

— Melody Beattie

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

— Tony Robbins

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

— Melody Beattie

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

— Marcel Proust

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

— G.K. Chesterton

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

— William Arthur Ward

"Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

— A.A. Milne

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."

— Aesop

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

— John F. Kennedy

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

— Willie Nelson

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

— Doris Day

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing."

— Eva Burrows

"This morning, I am choosing happiness over worry, positivity over negativity, and gratitude over complaint."

— Unknown

"Let your first thought of the morning be one of gratitude."

— Unknown

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

— Oscar Wilde

"Count your blessings, not your problems."

— Unknown

"Start each day with a grateful heart and a positive mind."

— Unknown

"An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

— Henry David Thoreau

"A morning is a wonderful blessing either cloudy or sunny. It stands for hope, giving us another start of what we call life."

— Unknown

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

— John Wooden

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."

— Harold Coffin

"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

— Jean Ingelow

"A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant."

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."

— William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

— John Milton

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

— Loretta Young

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

— Robert Green Ingersoll

"One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad."

— Jim DeMint

"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

— Bram Stoker

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams."

— Eric Hoffer

"It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams."

— Zora Neale Hurston

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

— Denis Waitley

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

— George Mason

"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."

— Joel Osteen

"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me."

— Puff Daddy

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."

— Barack Obama

"It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with."

— Mitt Romney

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

— Marcel Proust

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

— Euripides

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing."

— Baltasar Gracian

"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."

— Joseph Wood Krutch

"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."

— Hippocrates

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."

— Sallust

"The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it."

— Betty White

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