Thankful For Quotes

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

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

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
- Woody Allen

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
- Maya Angelou

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

If there is anything i am thankful for on any day...it's you.
- Kahlen Aymes

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

...I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
- L M Montgomery

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
- Haruki Murakami

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

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
- David Brainerd

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
- Alton Brown

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
- James Brown

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

Caris set off into the nearby trees and walked a few feet beyond them, thankful for a break from Rita's worry. He unzipped his pants and let them fall to his ankles, then he squatted down and began to urinate.
- Vernon D Burns

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

She still dotted her i's with full circles and felt genuinely thankful for every sunny day. I believed more in dark clouds, in sharp dots, in needing proof in order to feel trust.
- David Levithan

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

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

Im thankful for this moment coz i know that i grow a day older and see how this sentimental fool can be
- Dee

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
- Daniel Defoe

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
- Charlie Dent

Are you thankful for not being young?'
'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?..
- Charles Dickens

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

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

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
- Boomer Esiason

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

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
- Brett Favre

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
- America Ferrera

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
- Vanessa Hudgens

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

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.
- Gina Gershon

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.
- Delta Goodrem

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

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
- Billy Graham

I'm thankful for every moment.
- Al Green

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

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

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.
- Liam Hemsworth

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

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
- A J Jacobs

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

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
- John Gresham Machen

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.
- Pedro Martinez

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

He moved closer to her. You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.
- Elizabeth Morgan

I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.
- Vanessa Paradis

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

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
- Nolan Ryan

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.
- Ryne Sandberg

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
- Thomas Secker

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
- Rick Springfield

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.
- Hilary Swank

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

I read more of Treasure Island to him, and it pleased him a great deal. It seems to me that there are so many lonely people in this world, and so little of life is kind and good. In a way, I am thankful for this flood, since without it, I might never have talked to him much, and Mason is a nice fellow.
- Nancy E Turner

But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy.
That's how much I wanted Nash to love me.
- Rachel Vincent

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'
- Dreama Walker

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

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder