Be Thankful Quotes

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain

Rejoice always in all events, be thankful always for all things is a hard precept for human nature, though in my philosophy and religion a perfect duty.
- John Adams

That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.
- Alexandra Adornetto

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

You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well."
"Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?"
"Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him.
"Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.
- Julia Quinn

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
- Dan Barker

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
- Albert Barnes

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
- L M Montgomery

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful...
- L M Montgomery

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.
- Dale Carnegie

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
- Judy Blume

Be thankful for the little you've got, and a little is all you're gonna get.
- Quentin R Bufogle

You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for each other should be enough for you two to be thankful in life still.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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.
- Frank A Clark

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.
- John Clayton

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Erase from your vocabulary the word "someday." Do not save things for "special occasions." Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses ... just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.
- Rodolfo Costa

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
- Richard Dawkins

Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity to pay a hundred thousand dollars or more for a painting by an Italian three centuries dead. And he capped this insult by giving paintings to museums for the spiritual elevation of the poor. The museums were closed on Sundays.
- Kurt Vonnegut

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.
- Daniel Defoe

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Well, I am rather afraid of that visit," said Clifford. "It seems to me it will be rather like going to school again."
The Baroness looked at him a moment.
"My dear child," she said, "there is no agreeable man who has not, at some moment, been to school to a clever woman--probably a little older than himself. And you must be thankful when you get your instructions gratis. With me you would get it gratis.
- Henry James

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
- Max Ehrmann

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

What a clear, poweful emotion - thankfulness. It hadn't occurred to me in a long time that I could be someone that another person would be thankful for. Not for anything I'd done or said, but simply for who I was, and who I had the potential to be.
- Elizabeth Eulberg

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
- Elizabeth Gaskell

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
- Richelle E Goodrich

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.
- Richelle E Goodrich

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
- Joseph Gordonlevitt

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
- Franz Grillparzer

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!
- Dr Seuss

Take it and be thankful.
- Robin Jones Gunn

The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.
- Lars Gustafsson

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.
- Ron Hall

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
- John Hawley

Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.
- Joseph Heller

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.
- Dorothy Parker

To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.
- T F Hodge

Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt
- Colleen Houck

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
- Terrence Howard

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

I guess I should be thankful. Full of thank. But what is thank? I can't eat thank, so I know my stomach isn't full of thank. I can't smell or breathe thank, so I know my lungs aren't full of thank. I'm not even sure how much thank I could fit in the trunk of my car. But I do know one thing. It's much easier to give thanks than something that actually costs money to give.
- Jarod Kintz

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.
- Diana Lopez

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
- James A Lovell

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
- W Somerset Maugham

Once I used my powers. Now I feel like a dancing instructor, reminding the queen whom she is dancing with at this hour and with which foot she should begin.'
'Be thankful,' Gavin advised with a laugh, 'that so far the music is still being played and everyone is trying to dance in harmony.
- Patricia A Mckillip

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H L Mencken

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.
- Michael Newdow

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.
- Ruud Van Nistelrooy

Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.
- Alan Paton

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
- Richard Pryor

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
- Elizabeth Taylor

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!
- C K Webb

I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote, 'The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life'.
- Joseph B Wirthlin

Rest and be thankful.
- William Wordsworth