Being Thankful

As many of us take time to be reflective during this Thanksgiving Holiday I gathered some quotes that reflect this mood.

I am thankful for the grace of God, without it I could not exist and would have no hope.
I am grateful to my family who continue to believe in me.
I am grateful my son-n-law returned from Afghanistan.
I am grateful for my son-n-law who will soon finish his MBA.
I am grateful for my church and brothers and sisters in Christ.
I am grateful for my wife.
I am grateful fro My beautiful daughters who are just as pretty on the inside as they are on the outside.
I am thankful for my grandchildren who are working on being just as pretty and handsome on the inside as they are on the outside.
I am thankful for my brothers.
I am thankful for forgiveness.
I am thankful for my Country and the constitution we live by.
I am thankful I live in a Country where we can peacefully vote out people who by their actions show they do not believe in our constitution or American exceptional-ism.
I am thankful for the American soldier that protects me because he wants to and he does not even know me, but he loves the American way of Life, and will die if called upon.
I am thankful for the Trials in Life that teach me to depend on God and him only.
I am thankful for the blessings God has given me in the past and I am thankful for the blessings he has prepared for me in the future.
I am thankful I choose to be in Gratitude everyday.

Being Thankful Thoughts

" The past does not equal the future" Anthony Robbins

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."
- Northrup Christiane

"If the only prayer you ever say in your life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhart

"To receive more you must first be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the doors for good ideas to flow, while cynicism blocks the door of good ideas." - Jim Rohn

"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." - Buddha

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
- Melodie Beattie

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." -Brian Tracy

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

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?" -William A. Ward

"In all things, give thanks." -Holy Bible

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude."
-Clarence E. Hodges

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." -Cicero

"Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed virtue." -William J. Bennett

"A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things." -Plato

"Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance-- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart." -Sarah Ban Breathnach

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." -Albert Schweitzer

"Many successful men and women claim they are "self-made." But the fact is that no one reaches the pinnacle without help. Once you have set your definite major goal for success-and taken your first steps to achieve it-you find yourself receiving help from many unexpected quarters. You must be prepared to give thanks..."
- Napoleon Hill

"What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about..." The Secret

"What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude" The Secret

"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny." Anthony Robbins

"Everything you do matters" Andy Andrews

"one of the hardest things to do is to learn to receive" Michael Mack

Michael Mack
A Grateful American