It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
Seth Low

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

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

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.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.
Jalal Talabani

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.
Jim Ramstad

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
Cordell Hull

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

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

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

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday

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.
Tim Murphy

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche