Gratitude Matters: 10 Awesome Gratitude Quotes

Gratitude matters in every aspect of life, from your personal life to your work or business life. In fact, expressing gratitude helps us to remember that what we have plenty in our lives to be grateful for. It also helps us to remind the people in our lives that we are grateful for them as well.

Sharing our gratitude, expressing how grateful we are, is in fact a very motivational and inspirational form of communication.

Here’s proof that the inspirational expression of gratitude is an awesome from of communication using the written (or spoken) word:

“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” Henri Frederic Amiel “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” Willie Nelson “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie “It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” Naomi Williams “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” Fred De Witt Van Amburgh “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” William James “Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.” Stephen Richards “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 “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” A.A. Milne “One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This list was curated from a larger list of 40 Inspiring Motivational Quotes About Gratitude from business website, INC.com. As a small business owner, I know the power of letting my customers know I am grateful for their business.

Gratitude matters.

These days with digital communication we can share our words and messages of gratitude almost instantly via popular social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. In a few seconds we can show the world we are grateful in 140 characters or less…

I’ve got gratitude for all that there is and all who are part of it. — Pamela Leavey (@PamelaLeavey) March 10, 2015

I’m really grateful for technology and how it has transformed communication. More about that another time…