Ungrateful quotes
90 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people."
"Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful."
"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it."
"The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us."
"The wicked are always ungrateful."
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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."
"Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful."
"I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful."
"You'll never see a happy ungrateful person."
"It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable."
"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible."
"if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used"
"How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!"
"She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her."
"Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?"
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way."
"There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."
"The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful."
"Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain."
"What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away."
""Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial"
"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."
"He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him."
"The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling."
