John Wooden Quotes

I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.

In everything give thanks

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

Most importantly, it´s in giving thanks.

Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Give thanks. Appreciate what you DO have ... the more we give thanks, the more we receive to be thankful for. Gratitude is the gift that always gives back.

Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

Reflect upon your present blessings

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.

I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.