Elie Wiesel Quotes

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

I have a lot of deficiencies, but gratitude is not one of them.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

True contentment comes with empathy.

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says, 'I just lost my child,' or 'I have months to live, and thank you...' I'm of course sad for them, but I'm thankful that I gave them a gift and they're giving me a gift.

Humility is important.

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

I think being thankful is very important, and being thankful means you're choosing to be kind.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.