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Definition of Gratitude
Gratitude

The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.

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Gratitude Quotations

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
James E. Jones

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Gratitude Translations

gratitude in Danish is tak, taknemmelighed
gratitude in Dutch is erkentelijkheid, dankbaarheid
gratitude in French is gratitude, remerciement
gratitude in German is Erkenntlichkeit, Dankbarkeit, Dankbarkeit
gratitude in Italian is gratitudine
gratitude in Latin is gratia
gratitude in Norwegian is takknemlighet
gratitude in Spanish is reconocimiento, gracias, gratitud
gratitude in Swedish is tacksamhet


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