Appreciation: The Most Important Thing in Life

We often forget the most important thing in life: Appreciation.   

Appreciation for the wonderful world we are living in, for the ingenious creation, for the comfortable service we enjoyed, for the ideas, thoughts we shared with each other, and for the love and devotion we received from family, friends and strangers.

Reviewing the importance of appreciation gives me the inspiration to appreciate others:

Anonymous:
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Booker T. Washington:
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Sam Walton:
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Voltaire:
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Albert Schweitzer:
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Henry Clay:
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Anonymous:
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least.

William Arthur:
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Cicero:
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.