Ingratitude Quotes

• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiring, Thankful

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 16, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

  W. Eugene Hansen

  Gratitude, Revenge, Evil

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• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

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

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• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

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• Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

  William Arthur Ward

  Regret, Mistake, Blessing

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, People, Favors

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• Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Grateful, Practice, People

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• Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Ungrateful, Weakness

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.82, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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• If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Serious, Sin

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• Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Friendship, Medicine, Goodness

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• The wicked are always ungrateful.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ungrateful, Wicked

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.67

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Wind, Grace, Soul

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• There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

  Robert Breault

  Thankful, Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas

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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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• Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greed, Worst, Avarice

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

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• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Gratitude, Essence, Inspirational Christmas

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• You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

  Plautus

  Ingrates

  "Persa". II. 2. 46,

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• Ingratitude is monstrous.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Monstrous

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.182

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

  Coco Chanel

  Mean, Generosity, Accepting

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