As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind, yet strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Pride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

In most of mankind, gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Life is a gift and i try to respond with grace and courtesy

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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.

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.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us, to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.