Ungrateful Quotes - Page 2

• He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

  John Bunyan

  Forget, Saviour, Ingratitude

  John Bunyan (1839). “The pilgrim's progress”, p.267

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Ungrateful People, Doe, Ungrateful Person

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• They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a keep it moving, be classy and graceful

  Nicki Minaj

  Hate, Moving, Humble

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• 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, Ungrateful People, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ungrateful People, Long, People

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• 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.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Doe, Lasts, Miserable

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• Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Men, Earth, Produce

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.

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• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Blessed, Careers, Personal Grooming

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• Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude.  Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave.  Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins?  Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives.  We hunger for something more, something other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Giving, Humanity

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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• When you meet an ungrateful person, be great. The moment you become great, you will become fulfilled. There is no other secret. Nothing else will give you fulfillment.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Giving, Secret

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• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

  Saint Basil

  Dog, Gratitude, Men

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.143, CUA Press

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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

  Ungrateful People, Tragedy, Favors

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• What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Thrown

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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

  Ungrateful People, Heart, Thinking

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• If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Christian, Vices, Would Be

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• What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Mars, World, Almighty

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Hate, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  People, Wish, Favors

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• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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• Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Gratitude, Kings, Ignorance

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• I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Men, Definitions

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• The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

  Aesop

  Kindness, Ingratitude

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Hate, Real

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

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Ungrateful People

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

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