Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Appreciation

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior, to them.
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816) British Nobleman, Politician

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”
William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
William Shenstone (1714–63) British Poet, Landscape Gardener

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist

Few love what they may have.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.
The Panchatantra Indian Collection of Fables and Folktales

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush (1925–2018) American First Lady

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Homer (751–651 BCE) Ancient Greek Poet

I knew I had no lyrical quality, a small vocabulary, little gift of metaphor. The original and striking simile never occurred to me. Poetic flights… were beyond my powers. On the other hand, I had an acute power of observation, and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed. I could put down in clear terms what I saw… I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought, with pains, that I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

It’s not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It’s particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.
Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleonora Duse (1859–1924) Italian Actress

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock (1880–1946) American Playwright, Critic

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes Jr. (1921–95) American Personal Growth Author

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. Benson (1862–1925) English Essayist, Poet, Academic

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) English Elizabethan Dramatist

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636–1711) French Poet, Satirist, Literary Critic

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American Literary Scholar, Academic

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Reformed Theologian, Author

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist

He has enough who is contented with little.
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