Ingratitude Quotes - Page 6

• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Neglect, Duty

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• Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

  Jean Lorrain

  Names, Giving, Success Of Others

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Revenge

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

  John Calvin

  Hate, Blessing, Effort

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.72, Baker Books

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• We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pay, Fool, Worst

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.83, Random House

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• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

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• The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Heart, Produce

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.524

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• Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Fall, Garden

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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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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• Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

  Henry Fielding

  Guilty, Breasts, Behalf

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.47, 谷月社

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• And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Jesus, Cheer, Fall

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• It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Influence, Fit

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• Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, God, Loyalty

  M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.22, Tughra Books

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• A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Ungrateful, Benefactors

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, maxim 95, 1665.

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• Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Misery, Humans, Capitalism

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• Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Sky, Political

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• Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Yoga

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• Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.

  Luigi Pulci

  Gratitude, Ifs

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• In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards.

  Babe Paley

  Disappointment, Integrity, Humble

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• Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Men, Enemy

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• Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Race, Opinion, Influence

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.17

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• Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

  Saadi

  Dog, Grateful, Men

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.166, Innovations and Information

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