Early mornings, getting kids ready for school, gym classes, rush hour traffic and stressful work days. It’s so easy for us to get caught up in our very busy lives and forget to take a moment and meditate on what is important and what we are grateful for.  When we do take the time, we not only actively influence our happiness, but it also has a much larger impact on our lives. 

When we focus on gratitude daily you will notice the huge change in your attitude and the events in your life.

We’ve put together this list of 31 quotes about gratitude for you to read every day of the month:

1.      When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears. – Tony Robbins

2.      Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. – Christiane Northrup

3.      Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about. – Dr John F Demartini

4.      Let us rise and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha

5.      Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. – Khalil Gibran

6.      If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. – Gerald Good

7.      Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. – Brother David Steindl-Rast

8.      When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu

9.      Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life. – Marci Shimoff

10.  Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. – Alfred Painter

11.  We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being. – Iyanla Vanzant

12.  It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. – Naomi Williams

13.  The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. – Neale Donald Walsch

14.  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melodie Beattie

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

16.  it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. – David Steindl-Rast 

17.  Gratitude opens the door to… the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.  You open the door through gratitude. – Deepak Chopra

18.  Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life. – Jack Canfield

19.  Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. – Ernest Hemingway

20.  If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. – Frank A. Clark

21.  Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for. – Barry Neil Kaufman

22.  Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it. – Ralph Marston

23.  I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

24.  In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. – Elizabeth Gilbert

25.  Gratitude is a two-fold love; love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. – Henry Van Dyke

26.  We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder

27.  Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, this is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything. – Alan Cohen

28.  I cannot tell you anything that, in a few minutes, will tell you how to be rich.  But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you first hand, than being rich.  Be grateful…It’s the only totally reliable get-rich-quick scheme. – Ben Stein 

29.  What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it–would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. – Ralph Marston

30.  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

31.  If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart  

 Give it a try. Expressing gratitude is powerful and a great habit to create.