Positive character trait
Grateful
Feeling and showing appreciation for help or value received.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Thanks people for what they have done, in words or in kind.
- Remembers help long after it was given.
- Notices what is good in their life, even in a hard time.
Fits when someone feels and shows thanks for what others have done
Not when gratitude is demanded from someone who was owed the help anyway
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: gratitude is a feeling, not a work result. It belongs in a thank-you note, a speech or a reference.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is grateful for the chances they are given and shows it: after [training or support], they [passed it on or helped others the same way].
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Report card comment [Name] is grateful for help and always thanks the people who give it.
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In a story, shown not told Twenty years later she found the teacher's address and wrote one page. It began: You will not remember me, but you lent me a coat.
The grateful family wrote to every firefighter on the crew.
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