1. “The expressed gratitude by one merited the Master’s blessing; the ingratitude shown by the nine, His disappointment.”
2. “When you walk with gratitude, you do not walk with arrogance and conceit and egotism, you walk with a spirit of thanksgiving that is becoming to you and will bless your lives.”
3. “The grateful man sees so much in the world to be thankful for, and with him the good outweighs the evil. Love overpowers jealousy, and light drives darkness out of his life.”
Thomas S. Monson, The Divine Gift of Gratitude, October 2010 General Conference www.lds,org
4. “He taught them that none of us is above another because we are all dust, to which God has given life and then sustained it.”
5. “The Prophet Joseph said at one time that one of the greatest sins of which the Latter-day Saints would be guilty is the sin of ingratitude.”
6. “You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.”
Henry B. Eyring, Remembrance and Gratitude, October 1989 General Conference www.lds.org
7. “Gratitude is also the foundation upon which repentance is built.”
8. “Through expression of prayerful gratitude and thanksgiving, we show our dependence upon a higher source of wisdom and knowledge—God the Father and his Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are taught to “live in thanksgiving daily.” (Alma 34:38.)”
9. “Gratitude is a state of appreciation, an act of thanksgiving, which causes us to be humble because we recognize an act of kindness, service, or caring from someone else which lifts us and strengthens us.”
Robert D. Hales, Gratitude for the Goodness of God, April 1992 General Conference www.lds.org
10. “One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.”
James E. Faust, Gratitude is a Saving Principle, April 1990 General Conference www.lds.org