“The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.”
Ansel Adams · 'A Personal Credo' (1943), published in American Annual of Photography (1944)
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“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
George MacDonald · Mary Marston (1881), Chapter V
“As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?”
Robin Wall Kimmerer · Interview (2015)
“Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.”
Gertrude Stein
“Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give / As one near death to those that wish him live.”
William Shakespeare · All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, scene 1
“A grateful mind / By owing owes not, but still pays, at once / Indebted and discharg'd.”
John Milton · Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
Samuel Johnson · Tour to the Hebrides (1773)
“The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.”
François de La Rochefoucauld · Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665-1678), Maxim 298
“When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.”
Ambrose Bierce · Epigrams, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1911)
“Gratitude plants the seed for abundance.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
Dale Dauten · Cited in Colleen Zuck et al., Daily Word for Families (2002)
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
G.K. Chesterton
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Quoted in Hillary Rodham Clinton's essay on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1998
“We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow Is Now, 1963
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has.”
Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow Is Now, 1963
