Spur not a willing horse.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.