Your talent is God's gift to you.
- Leo Buscaglia
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Ingratitude often hides behind a mask of independence or self-sufficiency.
An assertion of being "self-made" is a rejection of God, one's ancestors, and society.
Your Genes, Place of Birth, and Upbringing are God's Gift to You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who have succeeded at anything
and don't mention luck
are kidding themselves.
- Larry King
If I have seen further, it is
by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness
of the interdependence of all these living beings,
which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
- Thomas Merton
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation
with any race or nation known to history,
but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
- Kelly Millar
Success is a result of hard work,
plus being blessed with good genes, food,
a good country, an opportunity for education,
and much more which we never "earned"
or "deserved," and for which we owe
everlasting gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading:
Debt to Those Who are Kind
Appreciating Our Blessings
Give Thanks
Gratitude for This Food