Thank You Quotations

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

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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

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.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

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

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

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

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

I sing in key, thank you very much.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.

I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

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.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies.

My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.'' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.