86 Appreciation Quotes

In a world where expressing gratitude can often be overlooked, taking a moment to appreciate those around us can make a profound difference. Whether it's acknowledging a friend's support, a colleague's hard work, or even giving yourself a well-deserved pat on the back, appreciation fosters a positive atmosphere and strengthens relationships. To help you find the right words, we've curated a collection of the top 86 appreciation quotes. These powerful statements are designed to inspire, uplift, and remind us all of the importance of saying "thank you." Dive in and let these quotes reignite your appreciation for the people and moments that enrich your life.

1. “Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.” - W.H. Auden

2. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” - Mark Twain

3. “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.” - Hunter S. Thompson

4. “Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.” - seneca

5. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” - Mahatma Gandhi

6. “In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)” - Aung San Suu Kyi

7. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey

8. “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” - Walt Whitman

9. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” - Emerson

10. “Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.” - Harley King

11. “We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel

12. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” - Voltaire

13. “It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.” - Deb Caletti

14. “Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.” - Vera Nazarian

15. “Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins” - Margaret Cousins

16. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” - Oscar Wilde

17. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” - Lewis Carroll

18. “Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.” - Scott Westerfeld

19. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!” - Steve Maraboli

20. “Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.” - Steve Maraboli

21. “Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.” - Steve Maraboli

22. “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.” - Steve Maraboli

25. “A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.” - Steve Maraboli

28. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."[Meditations Divine and Moral]” - Anne Bradstreet

29. “It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.” - Nicholas Sparks

30. “We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?” - k.d. lang

31. “I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.” - Dan Buettner

32. “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” - G.K. Chesterton

33. “When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.” - Marilyn Suttle

34. “Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.” - José Saramago

35. “Every one of my fans is so special to me” - Justin Bieber

36. “A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.” - Clare Boothe Luce

37. “Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.” - Ann Druyan

38. “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” - Elbert Hubbard

39. “The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” - Mike Norton

40. “You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

41. “Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.” - Arthur Rimbaud

42. “There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.” - Hal Holbrook

43. “Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.” - Kevin J. Anderson

44. “Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.” - T.F. Hodge

45. “What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

46. “I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.” - Steve Maraboli

47. “The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer

48. “You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.” - Criss Jami

49. “Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.” - Kate Rockland

50. “When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.” - Elizabeth Berg

51. “There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.” - Jo Walton

52. “What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in,whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, towhom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorlyunderstood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profoundunderstanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vitalrole they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertainfuture that is unfolding.” - Jim Robbins

53. “For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.” - Cecelia Ahern

54. “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” - Jeannette Walls

55. “Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.” - Deborah Day

56. “No matter that they had been together for years, always a feeling of formality when they first saw each other again, even if the separation had been only hours. It had something to do with the attention [he] paid to her – the fact that he never took anyone’s return for granted.” - Tatjana Soli

57. “Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.” - C.S. Lewis

58. “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

59. “BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.” - Julie Saffrin

60. “Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.” - Anthony Liccione

61. “Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” - Nancy S. Mure

62. “Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins” - Nancy S. Mure

63. “True love is a developed and intense appreciation for someone. It’s that perfect awareness that you are finally whole when she’s with you, and that hollow incompleteness you suffer when she’s gone.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

64. “Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

65. “To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.” - Alain De Botton

66. “Learning to appreciate the beauty that surrounds you is one of the keys to your happiness.” - Tom Giaquinto

67. “You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football.” - Bo Schembechler

68. “All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

69. “I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

70. “Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

71. “There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

72. “Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

73. “Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.” - Ashly Lorenzana

74. “The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.” - Abraham Heschel

75. “Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.” - Lauren Oliver

76. “The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure. How terrible to paint pictures and feel that no one wants them. How awful it would be to write music that no one wants to hear. Books that no one wants to read. And how would you like to be an actor with no part to play, and no audience to watch you. Poor Vincent—he wrestled with his soul in the wheat field of Auvers-sur-Oise, stacks of his unsold paintings collecting dust in his brother's house. It was all too much for him, and he pulled the trigger and ended it all. My heart ached for van Gogh the afternoon that I played that scene. As I write this, I look up at a poster of his "Irises"—a poster from the Getty Museum. It's a beautiful piece of art with one white iris sticking up among a field of blue ones. They paid a fortune for it, reportedly $53 million. And poor Vincent, in his lifetime, sold only one painting for 400 francs or $80 dollars today. This is what stimulated my interest in buying works of art from living artists. I want them to know while they are alive that I enjoy their paintings hanging on my walls, or their sculptures decorating my garden” - Kirk Douglas

77. “Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

78. “Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

79. “Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

80. “One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

81. “He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.” - Anne Brontë

82. “Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.” - Serenity Rey

83. “...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,—an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!” - Elizabeth von Arnim

84. “He appreciated you. But he couldn't feed your soul for the rest of your life. Can't you just appreciate that he was great for you for that period of time?” - Susan E. Isaacs

85. “There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.” - Bryant McGill

86. “Appreciation is always appreciated.” - Shubham Choudhary