69 Inspirational Blessings Quotes

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it can be easy to overlook the simple blessings that surround us every day. Whether for motivation, reflection, or comfort, inspirational blessings quotes serve as powerful reminders of the abundance and grace present in our lives. They invite us to pause, reflect, and embrace gratitude, helping to illuminate our journey with positivity and hope. In this collection, we've curated the top 69 quotes to uplift your spirit and inspire you to look beyond the ordinary, discovering the extraordinary in the simple act of counting your blessings. Dive in and let these words of wisdom bring new perspective and joy to your day.

1. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” - Eric Hoffer

2. “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” - Charles Dickens

3. “Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.” - Terry Pratchett

4. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” - Thomas Paine

5. “O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” - Francis Scott Key

6. “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

7. “When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” - C.S. Lewis

8. “For Equilibrium, a Blessing:Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.As the wind loves to call things to dance,May your gravity by lightened by grace.Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.As water takes whatever shape it is in,So free may you be about who you become.As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,May your sense of irony bring perspective.As time remains free of all that it frames,May your mind stay clear of all it names.May your prayer of listening deepen enoughto hear in the depths the laughter of god.” - John O'Donohue

9. “At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.” - Rebecca Wells

10. “The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” - Henry Ward Beecher

11. “When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.” - Howard W. Hunter

12. “While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.” - Ezra Taft Benson

13. “Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” - Steve Maraboli

15. “It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.” - Steve Maraboli

16. “You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.” - Nancy E. Turner

19. “Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. ” - Janette Oke

20. “I will only add, God bless you.” - Jane Austen

21. “God bless us, every one!” - Charles Dickens

22. “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.” - Maya Angelou

23. “Money can't buy no blessins.” - Ron Hall

24. “Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.” - Alexandre Dumas

25. “Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!” - Steve Maraboli

26. “The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “This new day has greeted us with no rules; unconditional opportunity. Do not dilute the power of this new day with the hardship of yesterday. Greet this day the way it has greeted you; with open arms and endless possibility.” - Steve Maraboli

28. “Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend.""Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.” - Scott Lynch

29. “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.” - Lydia Maria Child

30. “Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.” - Jeffrey R. Holland

31. “Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!” - Vera Nazarian

32. “Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.” - Mary Balogh

33. “Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.” - Thomas Goodwin

34. “I was pirouette and flourish,I was filigree and flame.How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names?” - Rita Dove

35. “Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

36. “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.” - T.F. Hodge

37. “She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!” - Elizabeth Prentiss

38. “If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...” - William Shakespeare

39. “To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.” - T.F. Hodge

40. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.” - Criss Jami

41. “Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.” - Criss Jami

42. “The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.-Streetwalking with Jesus” - John Green

43. “The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their goals to be achieved, and follow a good path; but ultimately it will be up to them to live their own lives and make their own choices knowing there are rewards and consequences.” - Ana Monnar

44. “To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.” - Martin Luther

45. “Sometimes we focus so much on what we don't have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!” - Jeff Dixon

46. “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.” - Henry Clay

47. “... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

48. “Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

49. “If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.” - Anthon St. Maarten

50. “...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.” - Elisabeth Elliot

51. “Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.” - Alan Cohen

52. “It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

53. “To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started” - Pablo

54. “The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.” - Moazzam Shaikh

55. “All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return.” - seneca

56. “The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.” - Thomas A. Kempis

57. “When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!” - Evinda Lepins

58. “May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.” - Dorien Kelly

59. “After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for living out my life in this amazing country- The United States of America” - R. Alan Woods

60. “Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.” - Alain De Botton

61. “Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.” - John Yates

62. “Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.” - Yvonne Pierre

63. “To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.” - Anne Perry

64. “Count your blessings and be grateful not a great fool.” - Habeeb Akande

65. “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.” - William Arthur Ward

66. “Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.” - Steve Maraboli

67. “God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.” - Shannon L. Alder

68. “You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

69. “If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.” - Dillon Burroughs