Saying thank you may seem like a small thing.
But for the one receiving those words it can make their entire day or week and help build happier and stronger relationships.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 120 of the most powerful, beautiful and meaningful thank you quotes.
Use one of a couple of them to thank a friend who has supported you through life’s ups and downs. In a text message or email to a colleague that quickly helped out at work.
Or as inspiration for a card to someone who kindly stepped up in a small or bigger way when you needed it.
No matter how you use them I hope they will inspire you and help you to send more gratitude and positivity out into your world and build even better relationships.
Thank You Quotes and Messages for Friends
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
– Walter Winchell
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
– Thomas Aquinas
“Thank you for being there. For all those late night calls. It has meant the world.”
– Unknown
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anaïs Nin
“A friend. A friend is someone we turn to when our spirits need a lift. A friend is someone we treasure, for friendship is a gift.”
– Unknown
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
– The Beatles
“Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.”
– Jenni Rivera
“I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
– Henry Van Dyke
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
– Elie Wiesel
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.”
– John Bytheway
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
– A.A. Milne
“When eating fruit, remember the one who planted the tree.”
– Vietnamese Proverb
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
– Sophocles
“God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.”
– Ethel Watts Mumford
Thank You Quotes and Sayings to Help You Send Gratitude and Appreciation
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
– William Faulkner
“‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
– Alice Walker
“Silent gratitude isn’t much to anyone.”
– Gertrude Stein
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
– Cicero
“The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough.”
– Osho
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
– Voltaire
“When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect towards others.”
– Dalai Lama
“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
– Rumi
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
– Maya Angelou
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
– William Jones
“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
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
– David Steinall-Rast
“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it all into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret Cousins
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama
Thank You Quotes for Coworkers, Colleagues and Employees
“When we start paying attention to the services we receive, stop and really see the person who is doing it and take the time to say thank you, our entire day will change.”
– Brenda Shoshanna
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
– Max de Pree
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
– Oscar Wilde
“It costs nothing to say please and thank you. But forgetting those magic words can cost you everything.”
– Frank Sonnenberg
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.”
– Will Arnett
“We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success.”
– Michelle Obama
“You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not!”
– Dr. Seuss
“Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.”
– Lauryn Hill
“From young to old, there are two words that carry a person forth in grace and honor; please and thank you.”
– Byron Pulsifer
“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.”
– Ralph Marston
“Always have an attitude of gratitude.”
– Sterling K. Brown
“Saying thank you is more than good manners, it is good spirituality.”
– Alfred Painter
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain
“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.”
– Marian Wright Edelman
“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson
“One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.”
– Silvia Hartmann
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
– Richie Norton
“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
– William Makepeace Thackery
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– Francis of Assisi
Thank You Quotes for a Happy Birthday or Anniversary
“Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.”
– Travis Barker
“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
– Germany Kent
“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.”
– Jim Valvano
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault
“I’m thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.”
– Chuck Berry
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
– William Shakespeare
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”
– William Arthur Ward
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
– Thornton Wilder
“That’s what I learned. I learned I couldn’t shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.”
– Diane Keaton
“Got no checkbooks, got no banks, still I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”
– Irving Berlin
“In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.”
– Rasheed Ogunlaru
“Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds.”
– Erica Goros
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.”
– Tecumseh
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
– Meister Eckhart
“I may not be where I want to be but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be.”
– Habeeb Akande
Loving Thank You Quotes for Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend
“You changed my life without even trying, and I don’t think I could ever tell you how much you mean to me. I can’t imagine what things would be like if I hadn’t met you.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever.”
– Nicholas Sparks
“For the yesterdays and today’s, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for – Thank you.”
– Cecelia Ahern
“I appreciate you more because of the road I’ve traveled. My story brought me to you and I wouldn’t revise a word of my past if it led me anywhere but to your door.”
– Aaron Polson
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Ernest H. Shepard
“Gratitude bestows reverence… changing forever how we experience life and the world.”
– John Milton
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami
“I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”
– Cicero
“Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.”
– From the movie Meet Joe Black
“You stole my heart from day one, and I think you should keep it for a lifetime.”
– Unknown
“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
– Rumi
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
– Maya Angelou
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
– Osho
“I may not be your first love, but let me be your last, and I will make sure you never regret it.”
– Unknown
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.”
– Charlotte Brontë
“A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you.”
– Henry Wadsworth
Short Thank You for the Support Quotes & Sayings on Gratitude
“Let all your thinks be thanks.”
– W.H. Auden
“Thank you, my friend. What you helped me with today was a tough one for me so I really appreciate the support and help.”
– Unknown
“Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone.”
– Stephen King
“Change your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly.”
– Tony Robbins
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
– Aesop
“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”
– James Allen
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
– Gerald Good
“Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are.”
– Bethany Hamilton
“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
– Estonian Proverb
“I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.”
– Nick Vujicic
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”
– Joyce Meyer
“Through the eyes of Gratitude, everything is a miracle.”
– Mary Davis
“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
– Douglas Wood
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
– Shauna Niequist
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
– Karl Barth
“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
– Brené Brown
“‘Enough’ is a feast.”
– Buddhist Proverb
“The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.”
– Hannah Whitall Smith
“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
– Jefferson Bethke
Want more inspiration and help with expressing gratitude and love? Then have a look at these short love quotes, the best friend quotes here and this post on finding gratitude in daily life.