One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.

––Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

—William Arthur Ward

When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

—Vietnamese proverb

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

––Oprah Winfrey

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

––W.T. Purkiser

Let 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

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

 —Aesop

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

—Joseph Stalin

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

 —Cicero

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.

––Anonymous

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

 —G.K. Chesterton

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

––William Jennings Bryan

I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature, and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.

––Anne Frank

No longer forward or behind / I look in hope and fear; / But, grateful, take the good I find, / The best of now and here.

––John Greenleaf Whittier