Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

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

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

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

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

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

We don’t need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

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

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

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A friend is as it were a second self.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.