Thankful Quotes

“All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.”

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”

-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.”

-- Helen Hunt Jackson

“I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.”

-- Mark Harmon

“I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.”

-- Enrique Iglesias

“I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.”

-- Alexander Wang

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”

-- Thomas Carlyle

“Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.”

-- Margaret Mead

“Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.”

-- Joan Rivers

“And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.”

-- Terrence Howard