Find Your Way    HOME      Site Map      Search      About      Contact      Terms      Privacy

Related Quotes      Gratitude      Kindness      Gifts      Helping      Volunteers

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


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


Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
~James Russell Lowell


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


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~Knight's Treasury of Illustrations by Walter B. Knight, 1963  [Knight "gleaned from a wide variety of sources" for his treasury. I've seen this quotation attributed to Jack Herbert, quoted 1966; Mae Maloo, quoted 1975; and John E. Southard, quoted 1977. –tg]


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.  ~G.K. Chesterton


Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality.  ~Alfred Painter


Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.  ~Confucius


The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.  ~Oscar Wilde


Gratitude is the memory of the heart.  ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown


Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Variation of a saying that has been around since at least 1861, author of original saying is possibly Christian Nestell Bovee, see quoteinvestigator.com/2013/10/26/kindness-see


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston, Cinderella Cargoes, 1929


We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder


I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.  ~Benjamin Disraeli


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.  ~Author Unknown


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

Page Information:
www.quotegarden.com/thank-you.html
Last saved 2020 Oct 09 Fri 15:26 PDT

Find Your Way    HOME      Site Map      Search      About      Contact      Terms      Privacy