John Templeton Quotes

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.

I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.

You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Have an attitude of gratitude.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

If we think we will have joy only by praying and singing psalms, we will be disillusioned. But if we fill our lives with simple good things and constantly thank God for them, we will be joyful, that is, full of joy.

Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man.

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.

A grateful heart, then, comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives. This requires conscious effort-at least until we have truly learned and cultivated an attitude of gratitude. Often we feel grateful and intend to express our thanks but forget to do so or just don't get around to it. Someone has said that "feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

I never really look back. I just approach life (taking) it one day at a time. I'm just really grateful.

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

I've got really good people around me, and I feel really blessed to get to do everything I get to do, so to me it's a joy.

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.