These appreciation quotes will inspire you. Appreciation, recognition, and enjoyment of the good qualities of someone or something. A full understanding of a situation.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging appreciation quotes, appreciation sayings, and appreciation proverbs.
Best Appreciation Quotes
- “Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.” ~ Ralph Marston
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“Sometimes the best things are right in front of you; it just takes some time to see them.” ~ Gladys Knight
- “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton
- “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” ~ Eric Hoffer
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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” ~ Margaret Cousins
- “No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.” ~ Dale Dauten
- “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” ~ Cynthia Ozick
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“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” ~ Alphonse Karr
- “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein , Appreciation quotes for teacher
- “Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.” ~ Joel Osteen
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“Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.” ~ Alan Cohen
- “There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.” ~ William R. Miller
- “Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune” ~ Sam Walton - “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” ~ Tom Brokaw
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” ~ William James
- “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” ~ James Allen
- “The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.” ~ Walter J. West
- “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn’t fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn’t because the universe is cruel. It’s because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don’t appreciate things that fall into our laps.” ~ Neil Strauss
- “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden
- “You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.” ~ Sherry Anderson
- “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire
- “Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
- “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
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“Begin with praise and honest appreciation.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.” ~ Alex Faickney Osborn
- “There are two things people want more than sex and money – recognition and praise.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
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“If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” ~ Anne Bradstreet
- “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart
- “Never let a day pass without looking for the good, feeling the good within you, praising, appreciating, blessing, and being grateful. Make it your life commitment, and you will stand in utter awe of what happens in your life.” ~ Rhonda Byrne
- “Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” ~ Og Mandino
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.” ~ Richard Carlson
- “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.” ~ Hugh Jackman
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“Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Work hard, don’t quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.” ~ Michael Keaton , Appreciation quotes for work
- “Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.” ~ Mary Xavier Mehegan
- “Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” ~ Sarah Caldwell
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“Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.” ~ Cory Monteith
- “Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.” ~ Byron Katie
- “Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth’s beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” ~ William James
- “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “You must be prepared to work always without applause.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
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“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.” ~ Yul Brynner
- “Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.” ~ Sophocles
- “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
