Definition of Thankful

Thankful

Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.

Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.

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Thankful Quotations

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

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
Jackie Kennedy

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Elizabeth I

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Izaak Walton

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
Brett Favre

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
Richard Pryor

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Henry Ward Beecher

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
Alfred Russel Wallace

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
William Banting

I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.
Justin Timberlake

I'm happy to be black. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
LL Cool J

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
LL Cool J

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
Jeremy Lin

I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.
Vanessa Hudgens

There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.
Lisa Leslie

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.
Maurice Greene

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
James A. Lovell

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Thankful Translations

thankful in Afrikaans is dankbaar
thankful in Danish is taknemmelig
thankful in Dutch is dankbaar, erkentelijk
thankful in German is dankbar, dankbaren, dankbar
thankful in Italian is grato
thankful in Spanish is agradecido, agradezco
thankful in Swedish is tacksam

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