I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.
Thank God we’re living in a country where the sky’s the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Feeling gratitude isn’t born in us – it’s something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.
Every day I’ve got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know – the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you’d better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Never take anything for granted.
I’m one of the most fortunate people in the world.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
I’m thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could’ve gone the other way.
Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
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.
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.
