Gratitude Quotes

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Secret, Favors

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Secret, Mankind

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Joseph Stalin

Sickness, Dogs, Suffered

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy, Memory, Changes

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North Whitehead

Success, Wise, Help

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
Elie Wiesel

Humanity, Person, Her

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Expect, Duty, Paid

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
Lauryn Hill

God, Everything, Done

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Sophocles

Off, Dead, Quick

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos

Love, Time, Great

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian

Good, Hope, Bad

The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt

Public, Neither, Shame

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
Sophocles

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship, Him, Another

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb

Nothing, Real, Value

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life, Else, Pay

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain

Courtesy, Exquisite

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust

Ambition, Blood, Breaks

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

Revenge, Expensive, Profitable

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict

Job, Himself, Virtue

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
Simon Mainwaring

Experience, Simple, Saying

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Great, Become, Duty

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis Diderot

Made, Off, Burden

When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.
Simon Mainwaring

Positive, Job, Between

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
Dennis Prager

Life, Happy, Grateful

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
Loretta Young

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
Pat Summerall

Life, Time, Blessed

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