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216 popular thank-you lines and gratitude quotes from literature, history, politics, and pop culture — browse A–Z by author, or open one at random to share.
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- #6“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”A. A. Milne · Winnie-the-Pooh
- #7“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”A. A. Milne · Winnie-the-Pooh
- #8“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”A. A. Milne · often linked to Pooh
- #100“I thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing.”ABBA · Thank You for the Music
- #129“Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing.”ABBA · song lyric
- #113“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”Acts 20:35 · scripture
- #200“We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing.”Adrianus Valerius · hymn tradition
- #13“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”Aesop · fabulist
- #106“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”Aesop · fabulist
- #206“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”Albert Pike · often attributed
- #48“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.”Albert Schweitzer · humanitarian
- #49“Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”Albert Schweitzer · humanitarian
- #54“Find the good and praise it.”Alex Haley · author
- #70“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.”Alfred North Whitehead · philosopher
- #146“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.”Alfred Painter · often attributed
- #10“Thank you is the best prayer that anyone could say.”Alice Walker · novelist
- #97“Thank you for being a friend. Traveled down the road and back again.”Andrew Gold · The Golden Girls
- #46“No one has ever become poor by giving.”Anne Frank · diarist
- #47“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”Anne Frank · diarist
- #108“You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness.”Anne Frank · diarist
- #178“You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”Anne Frank · diarist
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- #126“Lean on me, when you're not strong.”Bill Withers · song lyric
- #188“Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend.”Bill Withers · song lyric
- #123“Thanks for the memories.”Bob Hope · entertainer
- #149“Thank you for loving me.”Bon Jovi · song title
- #116“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”Booker T. Washington · educator
- #175“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”Booker T. Washington · educator
- #85“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”Brené Brown · researcher
- #86“I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness — it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.”Brené Brown · researcher
- #92“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you.”Brian Tracy · author
- #63“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.”Buddha · often attributed
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- #169“Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'”C. S. Lewis · writer
- #127“You've got a friend.”Carole King · song lyric
- #128“Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call.”Carole King · You've Got a Friend
- #187“Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call and I'll be there.”Carole King · You've Got a Friend
- #28“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes.”Charles Dickens · novelist
- #72“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.”Charles Schwab · industrialist
- #36“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the person who planted them.”Chinese proverb · folk wisdom
- #35“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”Confucius · philosopher
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- #60“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”Dalai Lama · spiritual leader
- #61“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.”Dalai Lama · spiritual leader
- #138“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”Dalai Lama · spiritual leader
- #139“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”Dalai Lama · spiritual leader
- #59“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands.”David Steindl-Rast · monk & author
- #150“I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life.”Dido · Thank You
- #57“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer · theologian
- #167“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer · theologian
- #94“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”Doris Day · actress & singer
- #124“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”Douglas Adams · The Hitchhiker's Guide
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- #9“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”E. B. White · Charlotte's Web
- #34“I thank you God for most this amazing day.”E. E. Cummings · poet
- #74“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”Edwin Arlington Robinson · poet
- #73“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”Elbert Hubbard · writer
- #159“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.”Elie Wiesel · writer
- #215“When gratitude becomes an essential foundation in our lives, miracles start to appear everywhere.”Emmanuel Dagher · author
- #14“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”Epictetus · Stoic
- #15“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”Epicurus · philosopher
- #65“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”Eric Hoffer · philosopher
- #37“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”Estonian proverb · folk wisdom
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- #66“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”Felix Frankfurter · U.S. Supreme Court justice
- #198“For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies.”Folliott S. Pierpoint · hymn
- #102“It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #103“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #104“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #105“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #131“Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #132“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #133“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #134“It's you I like.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers song
- #135“Won't you be my neighbor?”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #136“You make each day a special day by just your being you.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #137“I like you just the way you are.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #184“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing — that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #185“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #186“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”Fred Rogers · Mister Rogers
- #24“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”Friedrich Nietzsche · philosopher
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- #4“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought.”G. K. Chesterton · writer
- #5“And gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”G. K. Chesterton · writer
- #152“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”G. K. Chesterton · writer
- #153“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”G. K. Chesterton · writer
- #109“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”George Eliot · novelist
- #179“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.”George Eliot · Middlemarch
- #141“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”George Elliston · writer
- #170“Praise the Giver. The gift is easy afterward.”George Herbert · poet
- #171“Thou that hast given so much to me, give one thing more — a grateful heart.”George Herbert · poet
- #93“It's a funny thing about life; once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”Germany Kent · author
- #2“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”Gertrude Stein · writer
- #151“Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.”Gladys Bronwyn Stern · writer
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- #38“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”Hausa proverb · West African wisdom
- #121“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”Helen Keller · author & activist
- #177“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”Helen Keller · author & activist
- #76“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.”Henri Frederic Amiel · philosopher
- #199“Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home.”Henry Alford · hymn
- #67“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”Henry Clay · U.S. statesman
- #148“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.”Henry Clay · U.S. statesman
- #27“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”Henry David Thoreau · essayist
- #55“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”Henry Ward Beecher · clergyman
- #56“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”Henry Ward Beecher · clergyman
- #163“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds iron, so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.”Henry Ward Beecher · clergyman
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- #140“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”Ian Maclaren · often attributed
- #95“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”Irving Berlin · songwriter
- #96“I've got plenty to be thankful for.”Irving Berlin · Holiday Inn
- #194“Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”Irving Berlin · songwriter
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- #40“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”James Allen · author
- #213“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.”James E. Faust · religious leader
- #156“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. I hope it lasts.”Jane Austen · letter to Cassandra
- #39“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”Jean-Baptiste Massieu · educator
- #79“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”Johannes A. Gaertner · poet
- #147“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”John E. Southard · popular attribution
- #68“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 · U.S. president
- #69“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”John F. Kennedy · U.S. president
- #174“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”John F. Kennedy · U.S. president
- #162“Thankfulness opens our hearts and expands our capacity for joy.”John Templeton · philanthropist
- #71“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”John Wooden · coach
- #195“Count your blessings, name them one by one.”Johnson Oatman Jr. · hymn
- #196“When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, count your many blessings.”Johnson Oatman Jr. · hymn
- #142“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends.”Joseph B. Wirthlin · religious leader
- #201“Simple gifts: 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free.”Joseph Brackett · Shaker song
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- #210“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching tradition
- #211“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
- #212“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”Lao Tzu · often attributed
- #78“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”Lionel Hampton · musician
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- #122“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”Mahatma Gandhi · leader
- #11“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”Marcel Proust · novelist
- #172“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”Marcel Proust · novelist
- #203“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
- #204“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
- #205“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
- #1“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”Marcus Tullius Cicero · Roman statesman
- #89“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”Margaret Cousins · writer
- #29“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”Mark Twain · writer
- #30“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”Mark Twain · writer
- #197“Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices.”Martin Rinkart · hymn
- #52“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”Maya Angelou · poet
- #53“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”Maya Angelou · poet
- #118“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”Maya Angelou · poet
- #119“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”Maya Angelou · poet
- #160“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”Maya Angelou · poet
- #42“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”Meister Eckhart · mystic
- #80“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”Melody Beattie · author
- #81“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”Melody Beattie · author
- #214“Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply.”Michael Bernard Beckwith · author
- #115“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”Mother Teresa · humanitarian
- #180“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”Mother Teresa · humanitarian
- #181“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”Mother Teresa · humanitarian
- #182“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”Mother Teresa · humanitarian
- #183“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”Mother Teresa · humanitarian
- #117“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”Muhammad Ali · boxer
- #176“Don't count the days, make the days count.”Muhammad Ali · boxer
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- #88“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.”Oprah Winfrey · media maker
- #155“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”Oprah Winfrey · media maker
- #173“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”Oprah Winfrey · media maker
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- #191“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”Paul McCartney · The Beatles
- #143“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward.”Princess Diana · often attributed
- #45“O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good.”Psalm 107 · scripture
- #112“O, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good.”Psalm 118 · scripture
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- #207“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”Rabindranath Tagore · poet
- #208“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”Rabindranath Tagore · poet
- #209“We live in the world when we love it.”Rabindranath Tagore · poet
- #77“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”Ralph H. Blum · author
- #90“Make it a habit to tell people thank you.”Ralph Marston · writer
- #25“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you.”Ralph Waldo Emerson · essayist
- #26“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”Ralph Waldo Emerson · essayist
- #98“You've got a friend in me.”Randy Newman · Toy Story
- #83“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”Robert Brault · writer
- #84“There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.”Robert Brault · writer
- #31“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”Robert Louis Stevenson · novelist
- #21“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”Rumi · poet
- #22“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”Rumi · poet
- #154“Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”Rumi · poet
- #114“A kind word is like a spring day.”Russian proverb · folk wisdom
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- #16“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”Seneca · Stoic
- #17“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”Seneca · Stoic
- #144“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”Seneca · Stoic
- #157“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”Seneca · Stoic
- #158“He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.”Seneca · Stoic
- #202“He who receives a benefit with gratitude, and of which he is sensible, returns the first installment of his debt.”Seneca · Stoic
- #161“I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”Septima Clark · civil rights educator
- #130“I wanna thank you.”Sly & The Family Stone · song spirit
- #43“For it is in giving that we receive.”St. Francis of Assisi · prayer tradition
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- #99“I get by with a little help from my friends.”The Beatles · song lyric
- #189“All you need is love.”The Beatles · song lyric
- #190“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”The Beatles · The End
- #192“Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody.”The Beatles · Help!
- #193“We can work it out.”The Beatles · song title
- #101“Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.”The Kinks · Days
- #125“I'll be there for you.”The Rembrandts · Friends theme
- #62“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”Thich Nhat Hanh · Zen teacher
- #58“Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”Thomas Merton · monk & writer
- #168“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us.”Thomas Merton · monk & writer
- #50“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”Thornton Wilder · playwright
- #51“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”Thornton Wilder · playwright
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- #75“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”W. T. Purkiser · theologian
- #33“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”Walt Whitman · poet
- #3“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”William Arthur Ward · writer
- #82“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”William Arthur Ward · writer
- #23“Gratitude is heaven itself.”William Blake · poet & artist
- #64“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.”William James · psychologist
- #145“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”William James · psychologist
- #32“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”William Makepeace Thackeray · novelist
- #18“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”William Shakespeare · Twelfth Night
- #19“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”William Shakespeare · Henry VI
- #20“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
- #110“Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.”William Shakespeare · Hamlet
- #111“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.”William Shakespeare · Richard II
- #164“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”William Shakespeare · Henry VI, Part 2
- #165“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”William Shakespeare · King Lear
- #166“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.”William Shakespeare · As You Like It
- #87“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”Willie Nelson · musician
- #120“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”Winston Churchill · often attributed
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