Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Blessings

Even though we can’t have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don’t get all we deserve.
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One must bless the new moon when it is visible in the sky.
French Proverb

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
Latin Proverb

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

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Unknown

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet

Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly, yet have not any abstract or friarly contempt of it.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
Livy (Titus Livius) (59 BCE–17 CE) Roman Historian

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

The tulip is, among flowers, what the peacock is among birds. A tulip lacks scent, a peacock has an unpleasant voice. The one takes pride in its garb, the other in its tail.
French Proverb

May the good Saints protect you and bless you today, and may troubles ignore you each step of the way.
Irish Blessing

Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have—and not worrying about what we don’t have.
Ken Keyes Jr. (1921–95) American Personal Growth Author

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

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given.
Elisabeth Elliot (b.1926) American Christian Author, Speaker

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived the light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes?
Matthew Arnold (1822–88) English Poet, Critic

Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve (1670–1729) English Playwright, Poet

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher

More than enough is too much.
Unknown

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things.
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one.
Unknown

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

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