25 Thank You Quotes to Share Your Gratitude

Have someone you want to thank but unsure of how? Share these 25 thank you quotes to express your gratitude with colleagues, friends, family, social connections and business partners today and year round.  My favorite?

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not the mind” ~Lionel Hampton

Building a company culture of gratitude—a business environment of thankfulness and collaboration—is vital for success both on personal and company levels. All November long, the Future of Business Collaboration blog is dedicated to helping you and your team do more than just sail through this magical season. Instead, we’ve built a wealth of tips, tricks and tactics to truly celebrate the spirit of gratitude and ignite a culture of gratitude, thankfulness and collaboration within your business.

My top three favorite “Culture of Gratitude” blogs from this series:

CEO Boland T. Jones: Building a Work Culture of Gratitude
How to Show Gratitude to Your Remote Team
Workflexibility.org: Why We Need a Culture of Gratitude Toward Flex Workers

And now, your inspiration: 25 Thank You Quotes to Share Your Gratitude.

1. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~Aesop
2. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~GK Chesterton
3. “Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; work harder. Never give up.” ~Randy Pausch
4. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
5. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” ~William Arthur Ward
6. “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” ~James Allen
7. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” ~Max de Pree
8. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~Melody Beattie
9. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
10. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not the mind.” ~Lionel Hampton
11. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” ~Doris Day
12. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, never have enough.” ~Oprah Winfrey
13. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
14. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” ~William Blake
15. “When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.” ~Dalai Lama
16. “Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.” ~Konrad von Gesner
17. “All that we behold is full of blessings.” ~William Wordsworth
18. “Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward
20. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.” ~Joyce Meyer
21. “Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.” ~William Bennett
22. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy
23. “Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” ~Jacques Maritain
24. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~Thornton Wilder
25. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” ~Seneca

 

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