A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. (Quote by - Carl Jung)

These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks. (Quote by - Seth Low)

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know. (Quote by - James Earl Jones)

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. (Quote by - Horace)

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. (Quote by - Henry Clay)

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world. (Quote by - Virgil Goode)

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. (Quote by - Sarah Ban Breathnach)

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness. (Quote by - Nathaniel Parker Willis)

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. (Quote by - Fran ois de la Rochefoucauld)

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. (Quote by - Sophocles)

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. (Quote by - Bill Vaughn)

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. (Quote by - H.U. Westermayer)

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. (Quote by - John McGahern)

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. (Quote by - Lord Halifax)

The dedication of the United States Air Force, Special Forces, and others involved in the mission to tracking down terrorists can not be matched. We express our gratitude to these men and women who defend the freedom America represents. (Quote by - Tim Murphy)

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood. (Quote by - Henry Cabot Lodge)

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. (Quote by - James Herriot)

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.. (Quote by - Joan Borysenko)

Grace is t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. I s a way to live. (Quote by - Jackie Windspear)

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)