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Thank You Quotations
Perhaps you cannot make anyone's thankless task less difficult, but you can always make it less thankless. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The three most important words in the English language are: "I appreciate you." ~Author unknown, c.1960s
So many friendly things are done
In this good world 'twixt sun and sun
That, do our kindest day by day,
We cannot half our debt repay.
~Oliver Marble Gale (1876–1943)
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan proverb
One can never thank people, I thought regretfully, at least not by piling gratitude on top of them like heavy American Beauty roses. One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh, "Our Early Mornings," Listen! the Wind, 1938
Thanks, Thanks! — from my soul I give you thanks! ~Charles Gibbon, The Flower of the Forest, 1882
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas, as quoted in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Not that which we give, but what we share,—
For the gift without the giver is bare...
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848
...silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone... ~G. B. Stern, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Man Who Wrote 'Treasure Island,' 1954
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks; and ever thanks...
~William Shakespeare, Richard III
We have no duty to perform which affords us more unfeigned pleasure than that of returning thanks to all who may have in any manner or degree, by their kindness, contributed to the comfort of others. ~Francis T. Stribling, 1853 [a little altered —tg]
...the most agreeable of all duties, that of returning thanks... ~Bishop of Meath, 1868
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Massieu (1772–1846)
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, c.1596 [V, 1, Portia]
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'Thank You,' that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart (c.1260–c.1328), translated from German and paraphrased by Matthew Fox, 1980
Though right it is to give Thanks,
True Gratitude will live Thanks.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Helpfulness," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880), "Address to the Young"
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949
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