Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. — Immanuel Kant
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
Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for. — Ana Monnar
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. — William Shakespeare
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. — Sayings
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. — Elie Wiesel
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. — Robert Breault
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. — Benjamin Franklin
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
Short Ingratitude Quotes
Eat in the house and then poop on the roof. — Thai Proverbs
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. — Plautus
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. — William Shakespeare
Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude. — Mokichi Okada
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. — Henry Ward Beecher
True generosity means accepting ingratitude. — Coco Chanel
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . . — Ambrose Bierce
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude. — Elizabeth I
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. — Walter Savage Landor
Ungrateful Ingratitude Quotes
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
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 Shirazi
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. — John Bunyan
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. — Aesop
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. — Ann Voskamp
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. — Edward Young
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of. — Jonathan Swift
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. — Antoine Rivarol
A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Lack Of Gratitude Quotes
A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude. — Bruce Wilkinson
Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy. — Konosuke Matsushita
We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude. — Brené Brown
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. — John Henry Jowett
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles
If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God. — John Calvin
When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling. — Peter McWilliams
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Ungrateful Quotes
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. — Kahlil Gibran
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
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. — Saadi Shirazi
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
The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us. — Saint Francis de Sales
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. — David A. Bednar
Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced. — Chico Xavier
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
Ungrateful Person Quotes
One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people. — Publilius Syrus
You'll never see a happy ungrateful person. — Zig Ziglar
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
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
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
Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom. — Constance Baker Motley
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product. — Robert South
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. — Epes Sargent
Gratitude Quotes
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. — Epicurus
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture. — Anandi Gopal Joshi
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence. — Pope John Paul II
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. — Anne Frank
If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude. — Carl Jung
If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. — LeCrae
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. — Zig Ziglar
Showing Gratitude Quotes
We love Foxwoods. They have always been good to us and we have filmed our TV show there. — Joe Gatto
Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. — Randy Pausch
Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises. — Janette Oke
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself. — Charles Perrault
I’ve got talent from my gut and I did my job to show to everyone that I’m simply the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is. — Eric Barker
I want to show to everyone that I am simply the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Achievement and abundance show up because they’re the natural outcomes of doing the right things with no limits attached. — Gary Keller
Show me a manager who ignores the power of praise, and I will show you a lousy manager. — Michael Abrashoff
Ungrateful People Quotes
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
There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them. — Robert Ringer
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot. — Michael Lee-Chin
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. — Philip James Bailey
Gratitude turns what we have into enough. — Melody Beattie
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. — Reginald Horace Blyth
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
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. — Dennis Prager
Attitude Of Gratitude Quotes
This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. — Maya Angelou
Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. — Brian Tracy
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings. — Chris Gardner
Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. — Maya Angelou
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become. — Ezra Taft Benson
Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life,
and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it. — Ron Fletcher
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity. — Debbie Macomber
Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. — Zig Ziglar
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance. — Viktor E. Frankl
Thankfulness And Gratitude Quotes
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know. — Bill W.
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. — Marcus Aurelius
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. — Robert Breault
Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique. — Kano Jigoro
A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart. — Charles Grandison Finney
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. — David Steindl-Rast
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. — Alice Walker
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else — Buddha
Expand the number of things you’re grateful for and the people you express your gratitude to. This will quickly take on powerful momentum. — Dan Sullivan
I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. — Elliot Page
Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others. — David A. Bednar
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. — John Milton
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! — William Shakespeare
We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count. — Neal A. Maxwell
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. — W. T. Purkiser
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. — Cynthia Ozick
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. — Margaret Cousins
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
First thing I do in the morning is give thanks to God for another day, and then turn to HLN News or ESPN to see what’s going on in the world. — Vivica Fox
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us. — Albert Schweitzer
Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope. — Ralph Marston
The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. — Francis Frangipane
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. — Ralph Blum
Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward
Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. — Cardinal Richelieu
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. — Max Horkheimer
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
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
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. — Charles Dickens
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men. — Oswald Chambers
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. — Lin Yutang
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
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. — George Washington
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations. — E. B. White
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
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
Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window. — Machado de Assis
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
I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. — Brigham Young
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