count your blessings
Recognize your luck
Count your blessings means to focus on the good things in your life rather than dwelling on problems or complaints.
The phrase implies that gratitude requires deliberate attention—you must enumerate what you have rather than what you lack.
Often used as gentle advice to someone who seems ungrateful or dispirited: I know the job isn't perfect, but count your blessings—at least you have one.
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- give thanksExpress appreciation verbally
- thankfulFeeling gratitude expressed
- appreciateRecognize value or merit
- fortuneWealth or destiny
good fortune · lucky · gifts · grace · abundance · reflect · humble · prayers · grateful · silver lining · glass half full · look on the bright side · cherish · contentment · mindful · thanks · bountiful · harvest
- happy quotespositive affirmations, live laugh love
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
- counting phrasesone two three, on three, countdown
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- momismsI told you so, no means no, back in my day, clean your room, do your homework
count your blessingscomplain
Express discontent verbally
gripe · whine · grumble · take for granted · ingratitude
count your blessingscatastrophize
Mentally magnify potential disasters
count, counts, counted, counting, counter, counters, recount, recounts, recounted