Gratitude Quotes

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
- Ovidius Naso

The still small voice of gratitude.
- Thomas Gray

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
- William Shakespeare

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A Gaertner

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher