"Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you."
Gratitude
Appreciation for life, love, and loyal people
221 quotes
Why readers browse this category
Gratitude is one of the main editorial paths through MovieQuotes, bringing together 221 curated quotes from 30 films, 27 actors, and 34 characters. It is built for visitors who want to browse by feeling or idea first, then move into the films behind those lines.
The current selection includes quotes from The Fault in Our Stars, It's a Wonderful Life, and Big Fish and performances by Billy Crudup, Amy Adams, and Ansel Elgort. Tags such as romance, presence, time, and attention show the language patterns that keep surfacing inside this category.
Use this page when you need a quote about gratitude for reflection, a caption, a speech, or a quick reset. Every result keeps the movie, character, and actor visible so the category remains useful to readers and trustworthy as a searchable archive page.
Category pages also work as a discovery layer when you know the mood you need but not the exact title you want. Because the archive spans multiple genres and release years, a page like this can lead readers from one familiar quote into several related films they might not have searched for directly. It also helps readers compare tone, context, and characters before choosing a specific quote page.
"If I like a moment, I mean me personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera."
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
"This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good."
"You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?"
"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole."
"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings!"
"A toast to my big brother George, the richest man in town."
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."
"It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you."
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it."
"Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten."
"My name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you."
"When I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home."
"We are all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride."
"Love is putting someone else's needs before yours."
"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you."
"People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom."
"They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true."
"A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories."
"When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind."
"You is kind, you is smart, you is important."
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
"I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
"Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it, and I welcome every moment of it."
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
"I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
"I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die among my friends."
"What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it."
"I never had a dad, but I always had you."
"I love it when you talk medical to me."
"They don't kill you unless you light them."
"It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."
"I cannot stop thinking about this Goddamned book."
"However, we do need closure, don't you think?"
"I write to thank you for your electronic correspondence."
"I am grateful to anyone that sets aside time to read my book.""
"She may have forwarded that e-mail onto Van Houten."
"To answer your question: No, I have not written anything else, nor will I."
"I do not feel like continuing to share my thoughts with readers would benefit either them or me."
"When I was growing up, he was gone more than he was here."
"And I started thinkingโ maybe he has a second life somewhere else."
"With another family, another houseโ he leaves us, he goes to them."
"But whatever it is, maybe he likes that second life better."
"And the reason he tells all those stories is because he can't stand this boring place."
"He's never told me a single true thing."
"Just show me who you are for once."
"Well, logically, you couldn't be the witch, because she was old when he was young."
"As we get-as we get close to the river, we see that everybody is already there."
"And the strange thing is,there's not a sad face to be found,everyone is just so glad to see you."
"Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching."
"I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals."
"If it's either (a) or (c), please call me back."
"I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their "i's" with little hearts."
"When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first."
"That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends."
"A fleeting thought that drifts in and out of the transom of your mind."
"Look, when the shit comes down, I'm gonna be prepared and you're not, that's all I'm saying."
"With whom did you have this great sex?"
"No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon."
"I have just met you and I love you!"
"He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may talk."
"Oh it is, because my master is smart."
"Hey would you- -cuerdo con tigo- I use that collar- -watashi wa hanashi ma- -to talk with, I would be happy if you stopped."
"My pack sent me on a special mission all by myself."
"I want to find one and I have been on the scent."
"I am a great tracker, did I mention that?"
"I have never seen one up close but this is the bird."
"May I take your bird back to camp as my prisoner?"
"I am here with the bird, and I will bring it back, and then you will like me."
"I beg of you not to do this thing."
"If Potter gets hold of this Building and Loan, there'll never be another decent house built in this town."
"Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why."
"And because he wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides."
"Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you?"
"Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack?"
"You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments?"
"Do you think Potter would have let you keep it?"
"Now, we can get through this thing all right."
"We've got to have faith in each other."
"Well, a shot at it, at least, huh?"
"I've been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I've been hungry for a decade."
"I've had a series of not-nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me."
"Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it's entertainment."
"And it's taken two rather painful operations to get me looking like this."
"No one has said "whoopsidaisies" for fifty years and even then it was only just little girls with blonde ringlets."
"Time was I'd have done the same thing."
"I just wanted to apologize for my friend - he's very sensitive."
"I'm sure you didn't mean any harm, I'm sure it was just friendly banter, I'm sure you guys have dicks the size of peanuts."
"The thing that's so irritating is that now I'm so totally fierce when it comes to nudity clauses."
"I was 12 going on 13 first time I saw a dead human being."
"But only if you measure in terms of years."
"I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock."
"There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world."
""No trespassing" was enforced by Milo Pressman, the junkman, and his dog, Chopper, the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock."
"Legend had it that Milo had trained Chopper, not just to sic, but to sic specific parts of the human anatomy."
"Thus, a kid, who had illegally scaled the junkyard fence, might hear the dread cry, "Chopper, sic balls.""
"But right now, neither the dread, Chopper, nor Milo was anywhere in sight."
"Vern didn't just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow."
"He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it."
"I fell in love with him the way you fall asleep: Slowly, and then all at once."
"Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead."
"The only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid bite it from cancer."
"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
"Guys, I think we should wait until dark."
"Oh, they're not so much cold as just under-oxygenated."
"Even though you have freaking cancer, you are willing to give money to corporation for a chance to acquire even more cancer?"
"Let me just assure you that not being able to breathe?"
"He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him."
"There's nothing that you're gonna tell me about my disease that I don't already know."
"I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy."
"Tivan, we have been halfway around the galaxy, retrieving this orb."
"How could I think Tivan could contain whatever was within the Orb?"
"We have to take this to the Nova Corps."
"We cannot allow the stone to fall into Ronan's hands."
"We have to go back to your ship and deliver it to Nova."
"If Ronan gets this stone, he'll kill us all."
"Then you know we must get it back!"
"He's gonna use it to wipe out Xandar."
"You don't get to ask questions after that nonsense you pulled on Knowhere!"
"Do you think she knows how to knock?"
"Wait, what am I looking at right now?"
"Why are you hanging off the Earth like a bat?"
"It was like my whole life got turned upside down."
"Oh, hey whoaว Oh, I love it even moreว Alright, let's start this thing over: Hi, everyone."
"Oh, look at him, trying to kiss my nose."
"Stop it, Sven I'm trying to focus here."
"Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem, but I found a staircase that leads exactly where you want it to go."
"Do you think she doesn't know how to knock?"
"Hey, do me a favor, grab my butt."
"Perfectly tolerable, I daresay, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
"You can only have two motives, Caroline, and I would not interfere with either."
"Miss Elizabeth, I have struggled in vain and I can bear it no longer."
"These past few months have been a torment."
"I came to Rosings with the single object of seeing you."
"In vain I have struggled this will not do, allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"You must know, surely you must know, it was all for you."
"You are too generous to trifle with me."
"I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before."
"If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once."
"I'm sure that Edward is already searching for me."
"No doubt by morning he'll come and rescue me from this strange land."
"Take me home so that the two of us can share a true love's kiss."
"We adore each filthy chore that we determine."
"So, friends, even though you're vermin, we're a happy working throng!"
"You see, I've been wandering very far and long tonight, and I'm afraid nobody has been very nice to me."
"Well, I don't think they would hear you from here."
"Now, if only I can find a place to rest my head for the night."
"Maybe a nearby meadow or a hollow tree."
"Well, does he take you out dancing just so he can hold you close?"
"It's when a human interacts with a computer and if the human doesn't know they're interacting with a computer, the test is passed."
"If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man."
"It's just in the Turing test, the machine should be hidden from the examiner."
"At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree-structured and then getting linearised words."
"But then I started to realise the model was some kind of hybrid."
"There was one interesting thing that happened today."
"In a way, that's the best indication of AI that I've seen in her so far."
"Did you program her to flirt with me?"
"Did you program her to like me, or not?"
"He never would have made a single mark."
"Why don't you go ahead and let the boy play football, Troy?"
"He just wants to be like you with the sports."
"Why don't you just admit you were too old for the major leagues - for once, why don't you just admit that?"
"How are you gonna play ball when you are over 40?"
"Sometimes I can't get no sense outta you."
"Everything that boy do, he do for you."
"He want you to say, "good job, son"."
"The world's changin', and you can't even see it."
"I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot as you!"
"Don't you think I ever wanted other things?"
"I'm gonna find him before the police do."
"I'm gonna find the man, and I'm gonna kill him."
"The death part you do alone, but I could have helped her with the dying."
"I could feel God watching me, shaking his head."
"Did you ever think about how one little choice could change a whole life?"
"I heard Hitler's mother wanted to abort him."
"At the last minute, she changed her mind."
"What if you or I had gotten into that car instead of Dave Boyle?"
"If I'd gotten into that car that day, my life would have been a different thing."
"As a lot of Latin women are, and she knew it."
"I dunno, but some guy tried to vaporize me with it."
"I think it's some kind of power source."
"So whoever is making these weapons is obviously combining alien tech with ours."
"Dude, a gang with alien guns run by a guy with wings?"
"Wow, they're in the middle of a heist!"
"I could catch them all red-handed, this is awesome!"
"Okay, I'm gonna get a little closer so I can see what's happening."
"No, no, no, I don't wanna kill anybody!"
"What the hell just happened, what was that?"
"She's just a girl that goes to my school."
"The Declaration of Independence is not a bargaining chip."
"The Founding Fathers believed the same thing about government."
"I figure their solution will work for the treasure, too."
"Chase gets off completely clean; not even a little Post-It on her service record."
"I'd really love not to go to prison."
"I can't even describe how much I would love not to go to prison."
"Well, if you've got a helicopter, I think I can help with that."
"Ian, I'm not going to let you steal the Declaration of Independence."
"There's more to the riddle; information you don't have, I do."
"I'm the only one who can solve it."
"By the power invested in me I now pronounce us ready to eat."
"You can call me anything you want as long as you keep me alive."
"There's nothing but a lot of white women dressed as nuns!"
"I'm gonna go back and work this out with Vince."
"I'm not gonna be in no damn convent with these people."
"This is fine for covering a little bulge, but now I've got holster hips."
"Like Clarence Williams III from The Mod Squad?"
"Mary Lazarus, as soon as I walked through the door, I knew that you knew this."
"Now, you're somebody who's into hard work and discipline, aren't you?"
"Lord, I want you to forgive Willy and Joey, because they know not what they do."
"You scratched a song right outta my head."
"How long you and Albert been a thang?"
"You tryin' to tell me you don't know your own husband's name?"
"Just another way of sayin' "master" if you as k me."
"That man can't stand up to his own daddy but got everybody callin' him mister like he the only one in town."
"If you ain't gon' laugh, you need to sell your funny bone."
"And got the brightest beam this side of the Mason Dixon!"
"Ain't you got somethin' to make you hop out of bed every mornin' and just smile?"
"When you think about `em does your heart get full like the first time you held `em?"
"That's how I know my pa still in this world ."
How to browse Gratitude quotes
These original editorial notes explain how to use the real quotes in this category for captions, speeches, writing prompts, and deeper browsing. They add context without inventing additional movie dialogue.
01 ยท Start with source context
โWinning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you.โ
Jack Dawson ยท Titanic
This gratitude line is strongest when readers see the source first: Jack Dawson in Titanic. The movie context keeps the quote from becoming a generic saying and helps the page feel like a credited archive, not a loose inspiration list.
02 ยท Use it as a caption
โIf I like a moment, I mean me personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera.โ
Sean O'Connell ยท The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
For captions, pair Sean O'Connell's line with a short personal note rather than another famous line. The quote already brings the cinematic weight; your sentence should explain why this gratitude moment fits the photo, milestone, or mood.
03 ยท Use it in a speech
โI never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?โ
The Writer ยท Stand by Me
For a speech, introduce the film before the line and explain the scene after it. That rhythm lets Stand by Me provide familiarity while your own point carries the emotional work of gratitude.
04 ยท Compare character pressure
โThis is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good.โ
Stitch ยท Lilo & Stitch
Stitch's situation matters. A category page becomes more useful when readers compare how different characters reach gratitude through conflict, comedy, romance, grief, or a decisive act of courage.
05 ยท Read for emotional temperature
โYou see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?โ
Clarence Odbody ยท It's a Wonderful Life
Not every quote in Gratitude has the same temperature. Clarence Odbody's line may be gentle, defiant, funny, romantic, or reflective, so choose it for the emotional weather of the moment rather than only the category label.
06 ยท Build a carousel slide
โStrange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole.โ
Clarence Odbody ยท It's a Wonderful Life
A strong carousel can put Clarence Odbody's quote on slide one, attribution on slide two, and interpretation on slide three. That structure turns gratitude into a small story instead of a standalone quote graphic.
07 ยท Keep the actor credit visible
โRemember, no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings!โ
Clarence Odbody ยท It's a Wonderful Life
Henry Travers's performance is part of why the line remains memorable. Keeping the actor credit visible adds trust, improves discovery, and reminds readers that a quote is also a performed moment.
08 ยท Move from category to movie
โA toast to my big brother George, the richest man in town.โ
Harry Bailey ยท It's a Wonderful Life
If this line fits, the next useful click is often the full It's a Wonderful Life movie page. That path lets readers move from a broad gratitude need into a specific film voice and related quotes.
09 ยท Move from movie to adjacent themes
โYou gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.โ
Hazel Grace Lancaster ยท The Fault in Our Stars
This quote may also overlap with tags such as forever, limited-time, thankfulness. Those adjacent tags help readers refine the mood when gratitude is close but not exact enough.
10 ยท Use it as a writing prompt
โIt would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.โ
Augustus Waters ยท The Fault in Our Stars
Turn the line into a prompt by asking what Augustus Waters risks in this moment. The best gratitude quotes usually involve a cost: vulnerability, patience, sacrifice, honesty, or a change the character cannot reverse.
11 ยท Choose it for short-form posts
โYou have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.โ
Mr. Darcy ยท Pride & Prejudice
For short-form posts, keep the caption clean: quote, source, one sentence of context. The category gives readers the emotional map, while Pride & Prejudice gives the line a recognizable home.
12 ยท Choose it for long-form reflection
โI would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.โ
Seth ยท City of Angels
For a longer reflection, use the quote as evidence. Explain why Seth says it, what changes in the scene, and why that version of gratitude feels different from the next quote in the collection.
13 ยท Avoid flattening the line
โOhana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.โ
Stitch ยท Lilo & Stitch
A category label is useful, but it can flatten nuance. Keep the quote attached to Stitch, because the character voice is what separates a real movie quote from interchangeable motivational text.
14 ยท Use genre as a filter
โMy name is Dug. I have just met you, and I love you.โ
Dug ยท Up
Animation, Adventure storytelling shapes how this line feels. A gratitude quote from a drama, comedy, romance, or adventure film will carry different expectations even when the core theme is similar.
15 ยท Look for the turning point
โWhen I look at you, I can feel it. I look at you, and I'm home.โ
Dory ยท Finding Nemo
Ask whether Dory's quote arrives before, during, or after a turning point. Category pages are most valuable when they show gratitude as movement inside a story, not just as an attractive sentence.
16 ยท Use attribution for trust
โWe are all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.โ
Tim Lake ยท About Time
Attribution is part of quality. A reader should be able to move from this line to About Time, Tim Lake, and Domhnall Gleeson without guessing where the quote came from.
17 ยท Pair with related quotes
โLove is putting someone else's needs before yours.โ
Olaf ยท Frozen
Pair this Frozen quote with a contrasting result from the same category. The comparison helps readers decide whether they want a softer, sharper, funnier, or more cinematic version of gratitude.
18 ยท Use the archive path
โYou measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.โ
Carter Chambers ยท The Bucket List
The practical archive path is category โ bucket-list-measure-people โ movie โ actor โ tag. That sequence gives readers multiple ways to keep exploring gratitude without landing on a thin or contextless page.