Appreciation Quotes

"Count your blessings.
Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."
Og Mandino

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
Brian Tracy

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

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens

"I had the blues because I had no shoes
until upon the street,
I met a man who had no feet."
Denis Waitely

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
St. Ambrose

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing;
it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Voltaire

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have
than to have things I am not able to appreciate."
Elbert Hubbard

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal."
Jerome P. Fleishman

"There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make."
Dan Zadra

"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."
Geoffrey F. Abert

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right."
Seneca

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
Peter Seller

"Appreciation can make a day - even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
Margaret Cousins

"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
Samuel Johnson

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time."
Dale Carnegie

"The deepest principle in human nature
is the craving to be appreciated."
William James

"Never take anything for granted."
Benjamin Disraeli

"We have an appreciation for nature that we never previously had as we were too busy to even notice."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Simplicity - a changing lifestyle?

"Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension."
Dan Wakefield

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."
Amelia Earhart

"We kept a journal of our goals leading up to our change in lifestyle. When we go back and read that journal it reminds us of how hard we worked to get where we are. It makes us appreciate where we are now."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Our Journey

"Flattery is from the teeth out.
Sincere appreciation is from the heart out."
Dale Carnegie

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.
Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it... while there is still time."
Dale Dauten

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal."
Jerome P. Fleishman

"Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life."
Harry Hepner

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
Mary Kay Ash

"They say you don't appreciate what you have until you no longer have it. We found once we returned to this part of Canada, we truly did appreciate the beauty, the people, and the pace of life."
Catherine Pulsifer, from A Brief Overview of Atlantic Canada

"Look around you and appreciate those who care about you, be thankful they are in your life."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."
Virginia Satir

"Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way."
Al Franken