Gratitude

• "Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to."
  • Anonymous

• "He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it."
  • Charron

• "O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
  • Shakespeare

• "What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the benefit."
  • La Rochefoucauld

• "If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father in heaven!"
  • Hosea Ballou