Here is a collection of only the most famous thank you quotes we could find.
Why mess with obscure poets, when you’ve got Nietzsche and Churchill to help you say thank you.
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“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.-G.K. Chesterton
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-Marcel Proust
“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.-Felix Frankfurter
“I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.-Benjamin Disraeli
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.-Thornton Wilder
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.-Unknown
“Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.-Marcus Aurelius
“God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?-William Arthur Ward
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.-Buddha
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.-Unknown
“For all that has been – thanks. For all that shall be – yes.-Dag Hammarskjöld
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.-John F. Kennedy
“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
“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.-Elizabeth Gilbert
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks…-William Shakespeare
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.-A.A. Milne
“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.-William Makepeace Thackeray
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.-Jean Baptiste Massieu
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.-Karl Barth
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.-Vietnamese Proverb
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.-Cicero
“Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.-William Shakespeare
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.-William Blake
“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even if he lives in paradise.-Baha’u’llah
“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.-Epictetus
“How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!-George Elliston