Quotes about Gratitude

With the many blessings I've received through football, my wife, Ashli, and I started the Mike Evans Family Foundation to be a blessing to others. We don't do it for the recognition. It just makes us feel good to give back.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Blacks should feel fortunate to be citizens of this country. We are blessed, not enslaved, and those who say otherwise are enslaved only by their own hatred.

The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

His father had always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back. In the words of the Bible, "To whom much is given, much is required.

always stressed that the comforts they enjoyed came with a responsibility to give back.

Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'