Ungrateful People Quotes

• All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  Dennis Prager

  Happiness, Adversity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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• Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

  Paul McCabe

  Thankful, Appreciation, Giving

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• Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

  Alfred Agache

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

  Ana Monnar

  Forget, Grateful, People

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• One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

  Publilius Syrus

  Doe, Ungrateful Person, Injury

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Scoundrels, Obligation, Misfortunes

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• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

  Douglas Wilson

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

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• It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Tragedy, Favors, Unbearable

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• I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Hands, Jamaica, Would Be

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Long, People, Ungrateful

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• There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Men

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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• Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

  Melody Beattie

  Thankful, Gratitude, Enough

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