Judith Martin Quotes

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

When you let me take I'm grateful. When you let me give I'm blessed.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

No one wearies of benefits received.

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.

I'm blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

You can never pay back, so you should always try to pay forward.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.