Helen Hunt Quotes

The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

If you can't reward, then you should thank.

People are less grateful than they used to be.

Never be ungrateful.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

It's nice to be remembered.

Sometimes you are so busy you forget to appreciate what you have.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.