If you’re reading this, chances are you have a lot to be grateful for. You’ve most likely achieved a lot, be that the ability to take care of your home as a single mother, a job that pays for your bills or the opportunity to garner an education that makes it possible for you to read about how not to go broke. You have a lot as women to be thankful for even as you push forward.
Optimism may keep you happy, but gratitude keeps everything especially your losses in perspective. Cultivating gratitude can be particularly challenging when you’re ambitious: It’s easy to overlook what you have while you’re striving for more. But for these powerful women, success never kept them from expressing thankfulness for their privileges, circumstances, wealth, or their career achievements.
Lets look at some of these powerful women, and what do they have to say about gratitude.
Mother Teresa
“The best way to show my gratitude is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.”
Beyonce
“If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.”
Oprah Winfrey
“I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”
Maya Angelou
“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
Melody Beattie
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
Margaret Cousins
“Appreciation can make a day — even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Alice Walker
‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.”
Bette Milder
“Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.”
Audre Lorde
“We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.”
America Ferrera
“As a child, I didn’t know what I didn’t have. I’m thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what’s important.”
