Quotes
Quotes about Gratitude
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
We must face the recognition that what the early Christians saw in Jesus Christ, and what we must accept if we look at him rather than at our imaginations about him, was not a person characterized by universal benignity, loving God and loving man. His love of God and his love of neighbor are two distinct virtues that have no common quality but only a common source. Love of God is adoration of the only true good; it is gratitude to the bestower of all gifts; it is joy in holiness; it is "consent to Being." But the love of man is pitiful rather than adoring; it is giving and forgiving rather than grateful. It suffers for them in their viciousness and profaneness; it does not consent to accept them as they are, but calls them to repentance. The love of God is nonpossessive Eros; the love of man pure Agape; the love of God is passion; the love of man, compassion. There is duality here, but not of like-minded interest in two great values, God and man. It is rather the duality of the Son of Man and Son of God, who loves God as man should love Him, and loves man as only God can love, with powerful pity for those who are foundering.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude â roots that can be pulled up.
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!
Gratitude is expensive.
The still small voice of gratitude.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. [Fr., La reconnaissance est la memoire du coeur.]
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas. Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits eternal. [Lat., Non est diuturna possessio in quam gladio ducimus; beneficiorum gratia sempiterna est.]
Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning.
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Gratitude is the heart's memory.
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
