Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
— Zig Ziglar
Surprising Grateful Heart quotations
Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.
The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
Out of suffering comes the serious mind;
out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.
The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God;
it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.
Love Gratefully. This love expands your heart into a greater vessel which can hold yet more love.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.
It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.
I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one is grateful for many things.
The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation.
It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.
A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
It's no wonder, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude. The anxious heart says, "Lord, if only I had this, that, or the other, I'd be okay." The grateful heart says, "Oh, look! You've already given me this, that, and the other. Thank you, God."
Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending.
I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
Have a grateful heart to be happy.
Commit yourself to constant improvement.
Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude.
I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.
A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.