Appreciation Quotes

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

Gratitude, Live, Forget

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire

Others, Wonderful, Makes

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

Life, Find, Others

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

Lie, Goodness, Roots

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.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
John Clayton

Time, God, Thankful

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Good, Thankful, Thoughts

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
Michael Jordan

God, Respect, Before

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude, Done, Far

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Mind, Whatever, Makes

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe

Life, Work, Great

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
Barack Obama

Women, War, Future

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire

Others, Excellence, Property

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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Next, Excellence

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart

Love, Home, May

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Sense, Less

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity, Become, Prosperity

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Greatest, Human

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck

Fear, Thinking, Hopeful

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Best, Mind

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

History, Experience, Science

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman

Life, Beauty, Wrong

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
Matthew Lesko

Government, Bad, Often

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly

Others, Charming, Total

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky

Love, Music, Respect

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
Shania Twain

Struggle, Difficult, Quality

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
Martha Beck

Real, Show, Meet

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Work, Time

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
John Baldacci

History, Experience, Here

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