Ingratitude Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Heart, Ungrateful, May

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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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• The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Grieving, Blessing

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• The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

  James Monroe

  Character, Rights, Important

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• The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Would Be, Influence

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• We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Tears, Shed

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• In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

  Philip Neri

  Get Well, Men, Giving

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.60, St Athanasius Press

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• The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

  Elliott Abrams

  Punishment, Stories, Merit

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

  Luigi Pulci

  Gratitude, Ifs

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• Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men

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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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• 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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• The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Opportunity, Thinking, Important

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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