Ungrateful Quotes

• A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

  William Arthur Ward

  Heart, Complaining, Tongue

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• 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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• Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

  Chico Xavier

  Confused, Persons, Angry

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• To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

  David A. Bednar

  Grateful, Suffering, Contentment

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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, Return, Forget

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

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• Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Regret, Fall, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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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, Ungrateful People

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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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• The wicked are always ungrateful.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wicked, Ingratitude

  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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• We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

  Mother Teresa

  Sad, Long, Done

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• The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Past, Favors, Want

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2005). “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

  Zig Ziglar

  Blessing, Perfect, Flaws

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• Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

  Ana Monnar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

  Ana Monnar (2005). “Relax: New and Selected Poems”, p.112, Author House

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• Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

  Ana Monnar

  Ungrateful People, Forget, Grateful

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• I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Selfish, People, World

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• You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

  Zig Ziglar

  Ungrateful Person, Persons

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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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• One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Needs, Assistance

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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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• 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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• 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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• You'll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. Sometimes happiness precedes gratitude but often gratitude precedes happiness. The latter is achieved by realising things could be worse but aren't and so feeling relieved, grateful and happy.

  Zig Ziglar

  Gratitude, Grateful, Feelings

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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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