Feeling drained and in need of a spiritual reset? Discover the transformative power of thankfulness. I’ve curated the ultimate list of 93 uplifting gratitude quotes to re-energize your spirit, shift your perspective, and attract more abundance into your daily life.


These powerful words from thinkers, leaders, and spiritual guides do more than just motivate, they rewire your brain to recognize the profound blessings already surrounding you. Let this collection be your daily practice for cultivating a richer, more joyful, and purpose-driven life.

Ready to elevate your mindset and unlock the deep, interconnected relationship between gratitude and living your best life? Dive in and let your journey to a uplifted spirit begin.

  • Blessings are often seen as positive occurrences or experiences that bring about a sense of well-being, joy, or fulfillment in one’s life.


  • Gratitude, on the other hand, is the practice of acknowledging and appreciating the positive aspects of life, including blessings, with a deep sense of thankfulness.



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Gratitude and blessings share a powerful, transformative connection. This relationship allows you to:

1. Acknowledge the Good: Clearly see the positive forces in your life; from relationships and health to small moments of joy.

2. Move Beyond Recognition: Consciously choose to appreciate and give thanks for these gifts, big and small.

3. Create a Positive Cycle: The more you give thanks, the more you attract blessings, building lasting contentment and well-being.

4. Reframe Your Worldview:  A grateful mindset helps you find the silver lining in challenges, transforming obstacles into opportunities for growth.

Embrace this cycle; let thankfulness magnify your blessings, and let your blessings deepen your gratitude.



5. Enhanced Well-Being: Research suggests that practicing gratitude is linked to improved mental and emotional well-being. Studies show that actively appreciating your blessings reduces stress, boosts happiness, and builds a more positive outlook.

6. Cultivation of a Positive Mindset: This practice cultivates a resilient mindset that naturally attracts more good into your life.

7. Deepening Connections:  Gratitude strengthens your relationships. When you express thankfulness for others, you build deeper connections and foster community. 

8. Generosity and Sharing:  Gratitude can inspire generosity. A thankful heart often inspires generosity, creating a powerful cycle of sharing kindness and multiplying blessings for everyone.

I’ve gathered my 93 favorite quotes to inspire you and deepen your awareness of life’s everyday gifts. So find a cosy spot, relax, and soak in these uplifting words of gratitude.


Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good

Maya Angelou

When one is thankful for the blessings in their life, they are choosing to attract more positivity and abundance.”

Michael Austin Jacobs

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.”

Joel Osteen

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”

James E. Faust

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”

Zig Ziglar

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”

Joseph Addison

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”

James Carlos Blake

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”

Cicero

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”

William Penn

Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.”

Stephen Richards

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

Albert Camus

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”

Karl Barth

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan
by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”

Peter Marshall

Reflect upon your present blessings-of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”

Henri Frederic Amiel

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”

Alfred North Whitehead

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute,
while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.”

Timothy Miller

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”

Brené Brown

Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won’t be going thirsty,
count your blessings not your flaws.”

Lauren Aquilina

Count your rainbows, not your thunderstorms.”

Alyssa Knight

Always remember to forget the troubles that passed away. But never forget to remember the blessings that come each day.”

Irish Proverb

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

Opening your eyes to more of the world around you can deeply enhance your gratitude practice.”

Derrick Carpenter

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.”

Max Lucado

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”

Doris Day

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life –
family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.”

Lil’ Kim

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.” 

Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is a posture of your heart. I believe that it has been a gatekeeper in my life and has brought on so many blessings.”

Amanda Kloots

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be
alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” 

Henry David Thoreau

Concentrate on counting your blessings and you’ll have little time to count anything else.”

Woodrow Kroll

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks.”

William Shakespeare

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment.
More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

Roy T. Bennett

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”

Oscar Wilde

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”

J. Cameron

Not what we say about our blessings but how we use them, is the true measure of Thanksgiving.” 

W.T. Pukiser

Some wish blessings, others pray for them. Some send blessings and they become one.”

Joyce C. Lock

“To multiply your joy, count your blessings.”

J. B. Priestley

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.”

Rachel Naomi Remen

When I’m worried and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep.”

Irving Berlin

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.”

Bethany Hamilton

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Gratitude turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

Melody Beattie

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”

Ralph H. Blum

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”

Elizabeth Gilbert

Live each moment in a rampage of appreciation.”

Wayne Dyer

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”

Lionel Hampton

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

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

William Arthur Ward

Focus on what you have been blessed with today, rather than what has been taken away!”

Nancy B. Urbach

The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.”

Mary Davis

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”

Arianna Huffington

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”

C. S. Lewis

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.”

Mindy Kaling

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

Robert Brault

Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.”

Jim Rohn

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”

Mark Twain

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

Maya Angelou

I’m blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.”

Lil Wayne

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

Gilbert C. Chesterton

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.”

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

Henri Matisse

Count your blessings. A grateful heart attracts more joy, love, and prosperity.”

Cheryl Richardson

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

Aesop

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.”

Lauryn Hill

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Focus on your character, not your reputation.
Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”

Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!”

Jeff Dixon

Through the eyes of gratitude, everything is a miracle.”

Mary Davis

Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”

Albert Schweitzer

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”

Douglas Wood

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

Alice Walker

At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

Albert Schweitzer


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Ultimately, gratitude is the key that unlocks a life of true abundance and deep fulfillment. By actively recognizing and appreciating your blessings, big and small, you transform your well-being, strengthen your relationships, and attract even more positivity.

I hope these powerful gratitude quotes have given you the inspiration to build a more joyful and prosperous mindset.

Now, I’d love to hear from you: What’s the one quote that inspired you most, and how will you bring more gratitude into your daily life? Share your thoughts and favorite quote in the comments below.

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