56 Gratitude Quotes to Celebrate my 56th Birthday

“Gratitude is like manure. It’s just a pile of crap until you spread it around.” – Kandas Rodarte

For the past 12 years, I have proudly embraced the title Gratitude Geek, plus hosted the podcast by the same name. In honor of today being my 56th birthday, I give you 56 groovy gratitude quotes from my podcast guests.​

1. “If anybody takes one thing away from this conversation… it’s you need to be celebrating everything.” – Deb Eckerling
2. “Living in gratitude every day and being grateful for my clients, my business, my family, friends, that’s what serves me best.” – Ursula Mentjes
3. “I think if there was more gratitude in the world, a little bit from each of us, the world would be completely different in just one day.” – Alex Sanfilippo
4. “Is gratitude enough? It depends on what you’re doing with it.” – Kim Beam​
5. “Gratitude is the acknowledgment of something for which you cannot take credit.” – Fletcher Ellingson
6. “What you focus on multiplies.” – Christie Going
7. “Every night before bed I write five things I’m grateful for… it’s just so grounding no matter what you can find gratitude in a day.” – Erica Neubert Campbell
8. “Honestly, I’m grateful for my now self… I had this strong present self pulling my past self through and I am so grateful for that.” – Rachel Allen
9. “I had to learn to allow myself to bring in a gratitude practice… to help calm my nervous system.” – Mira Dessy
10. “[My grandmother] was the epitome of gratitude. You could give her a string from your clothing and she would appreciate it like it was gold spun.” – Kimberly Mitchell​

11. “My biggest gratitude goes to my mom… I’m most grateful that I get to be her legacy and share all the light and joy that she instilled in me with the world.” – Deb Eckerling
12. “Celebrate your wins and have gratitude and appreciate how far you’ve come… celebrate it all. There are studies that show that gratitude can shift more quickly than anything else and so it’s not silly or hokey to say celebrate, have gratitude.” – Kerry Thomas
13. ​”I am surprisingly grateful for having some poverty in childhood because it’s made me grateful for all the things I have and it’s driven me to be very service oriented and to give back to the world.” – Anthony Poponi
14. “You write 10 things that you’re grateful for that you actually have, and then you write 10 things that you’re grateful for but you don’t see yet in your life. The magic happens when you go from ‘okay, Kerry told me to do 10 and 10 and I’m going to write 10 and 10’ to just a daily practice where it just flows.” – Kerry Thomas​
15. “When you’re super grateful for everyone that’s watching your content, for everyone that’s listening to your interview, for every host that interviews you, when you bring that gratitude, it will bring more abundance.” – Jessica Rhodes

16. “Whether I’m on a podcast that has 100 listeners or a podcast that has 5,000, I’m grateful because I know the work that goes into producing that podcast and I know the time that it takes for someone to listen. Really helping to promote it and share it and shower the host with gratitude is the least you can do.” – Jessica Rhodes​
17. “I’m not a cancer impostor, but other people had it so much worse. I’m so fortunate for that. You know, count my lucky stars every single day.” – Leslie Smith​
18. “My members just make this all have made it all possible… the gratification of knowing that you’re transforming so many people’s lives, it just can’t, it’s better than butter.” – Carol Tice​
19. “I’m grateful for you today, Kandas, for you taking the time to be with me and share the pictures of your cute kittens online because I do love that.” – Amy Stone​

20. “Your gratitude is your altitude, if you’re grateful for not only what you have in your life but who you have in your life, flipping that old victim mentality of things happen to me to a victor mentality of things happening for me.” – Mark A. Mears
21. “The key to happiness is through gratitude. When you’re grateful you are happy, it’s not the other way around.” – Daniel Den
22. “When we can acknowledge what we do have… it helps to shift our mind out of the negative frame… as you become lighter and more resourceful you’re more flexible… and then it’s easier to be in a space of gratitude.” – Ben Oofana
23. “I write 15 things down that I’m grateful for – five are for my past, five are for my present and five are for my future – and I jumble up the list.” – Andrew Kap
24. “I wrote down every day on a piece of paper the date and what I was grateful for that day, just one thing, and I put that in a little jar… at the end of the year you just see how wonderful your year was.” – Christine Michaelis
25. “Not only the importance of gratitude and appreciation and saying thank you but the fact… that the greatest asset we have in this world are the people that we meet and the relationships that we build.” – Tommy Wyatt
26. “I’ll write the date, the words ‘great stuff’ and then I write one, two, three… less than a line each… so that even years later I can tap back into the emotion.” – Steve Gamlin
27. “When those conflicts come up I send those out with a personalized note about how grateful I am for that… we usually are grateful only for things that feel good; actually, no, this gets me to more of what I would like us to be as a team.” – Kurt Uhlir
28. “It’s important to leave a review because hosts love reviews and they love guests who leave reviews for them… tell them that you did because obviously that’s very appreciative and very grateful.” – Noemi Beres
29. “I just bask in gratitude. I’m happy that I have food in my fridge, I’m so grateful for that.” – Jeanne Omlor
30. “I’m just grateful for life, I like living, I like to keep it simple… when I’m the most grateful is for the most simple things.” – Mads Rossau

31. “I am grateful for those whose shoulders I get to stand on… I would not be here today showing up the way I am if it wasn’t for the work that they did.” – Atiba de Souza
32. “Kindness highlights people’s strengths instead of reminding of their weaknesses… it unites people instead of dividing people and it feels good to give, it feels good to receive it and it feels good to be around it.” – Fletcher Ellingson
33. “Every day at 12:34 p.m. I say five things I’m grateful for… you’re rewiring how your brain operates.” – Anthony Poponi
34. “My husband and I just started this practice of saying the things that we’re grateful for first thing in the morning together… he’ll just say five and then I say five and then we make some coffee.” – Meridith Grundei
35. “I have gratitude hours built into my schedule… time where I specifically will sit down and go to Apple and make sure that I connect with the podcasts that I’ve been on… it gives me the opportunity to stay in gratitude mind.” – Vinnie Potestivo
36. “Every single day at 9:10 p.m. Pacific a reminder calendar invite goes off on my phone and it just says ‘I’m so happy and grateful that’ and I just take that moment.” – Phebe Trotman
37. “Gratitude is the ultimate state of being.” – Krishna Avalon
38. “Gratitude – and you might like this phrase – is the rarest of flowers in the garden of virtues… thanking people for who they are, for what they do, is really important.” – Matthew Brackett
39. “I refer to networking as the light switch when my business starts to slow down… you’ve got to just always have the lights on.” – Vicky Winkler
40. “You could say to your clients… would you be interested in seeing your clients’ networks… people do business with people.” – Donna Serdula
41. “One of my programs is called ‘Turn Your Baggage into Luggage’… [gratitude is] at a deeper level for where I’ve come from and where I am today.” – Donna Tashjian
42. “I am very grateful that I have everything that I need.” – Kimberly Mitchell

44. “I think that gratitude is a currency, it really is, and the law of reciprocity… eventually something wonderful is going to come back to me.” – Maya Ford
45. “I know also how I’m grateful for all the ambiguity I feel because the ambiguity has more treasures than the successes.” – Michaell Magrutsche
46. “I’m probably most grateful for the ability to actually see things in a in a positive light… it has opened up so many doors and provided me experiences I otherwise never would have had.” – Rob Broadhead
47. “I am very grateful of those employees that through the PPP loan I was able to keep them with me and they stuck it out… ‘Vicki, we’re going to make this work.’” – Vicky Winkler
48. “I am grateful to my mother because in her last few years she became so appreciative of the small things and she taught me to slow down.” – Kirsteen Williamson Guinn
49. “It wasn’t until I realized that they were the very pathway to my success that everything turned around for me. What I realized is if you take care of your customers, they will take care of you. So, I’m so grateful for them.” – Terry Begue
50. “But when you lean into gratitude and realize that there is so much to go around… you can be grateful for [competitors] because they push you to be better… They give you ideas and inspire you to keep going. Then your life and your business expands beautifully” – Rai Hyde Cornell
51. “Gratitude is not new age. Gratitude is science. Harvard Medical School reported multiple studies showing that people who express gratitude are more optimistic and felt better about themselves. A paper published by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence concluded that expressing gratitude and a feeling of connection with others improves those relationships.” – Ivan Misner​
52. “I think when you’re in a place of appreciation, it opens up the doors to be able to help others in one regard or another.” – Melissa Myers
53. “I have such gratitude for the wisdom that no matter the circumstance, no matter the abuse, no matter the transformation, that all of these years my body has held on to the knowing that I am lovable and that I am worthy and that I can make a difference.” – Lydia Knight​
54. “Well, I am grateful to both my family in general, both immediate and extended, and I’m grateful to the place that I grew up, which is St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. I appreciate that I got to grow up in a place that centered my identity as a Black woman in a matriarchal society and taught me things that I didn’t realize that I needed to know.” – Mahlena Ray Johnson​
55. “I live an incredible life. I’m incredibly grateful for my wife I’ve been married to for 24 years, I live in an amazing house in an amazing location. I’m incredibly grateful for the life I’ve been able to live as a result of my business, as a result of a lot of the boring stuff that I’ve done over time. I’m grateful for my team who make it all possible, I’m grateful to everyone in my life really.” – Allan Dib
56. “I am grateful for my oldest son and all the challenges that he has put in front of me… it has made me a better human being, far more patient than I’ve ever been.” – Michelle Slaney-Trovato

If one of these quotes hits you right in the feels, drop it in the comments and tell me which number is your favorite and why.

Stay Groovy!