1. An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ~Carl Jung
2. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
3. Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
4. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~Henry Clay
5. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it ~William Arthur Ward
6. Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners
who make our soul bloom. ~Marcel Proust
7. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ~Winston Churchill
8. The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ~Nancy Friday