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
Blissful Ungrateful quotations
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.
Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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.
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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.
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.
A grateful person is rich in contentment.
An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.
Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing.
It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.
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.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
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.
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.
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
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.
Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us.
How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
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
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
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.
Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.
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.
One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.
I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.