117 Ungrateful Quotes

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Famous Ungrateful Quotes

Ingratitude is monstrous. — William Shakespeare

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for. — Ana Monnar

The wicked are always ungrateful. — Miguel de Cervantes

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. — Seneca

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

One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people. - Publilius Syrus

One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people. — Publilius Syrus

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. — William Arthur Ward

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. — Publilius Syrus

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. — Seneca

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

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

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to. — Steven Furtick

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. — Publilius Syrus

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. — Saadi Shirazi

Short Ungrateful Quotes

  • Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. — Louis XIV
  • Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced. — Chico Xavier
  • Eat in the house and then poop on the roof. — Thai Proverbs
  • I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful. — Zig Ziglar
  • You'll never see a happy ungrateful person. — Zig Ziglar
  • The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius
  • It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Being Ungrateful Quotes

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

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

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. — Prince

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

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

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

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. — Seneca The Elder

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. — Seneca

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable. — Jean De La Fontaine

if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used — Joyce Rupp

Ungrateful People Quotes

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

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

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. — Reginald Horace Blyth

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

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

People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful. — Kristen Stewart

Ungrateful Person Quotes

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

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

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

Ingratitude Quotes

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward

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

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. — Thomas S. Monson

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. — Plautus

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

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

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. — William Shakespeare

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

Lack Of Gratitude Quotes

A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude. - Bruce Wilkinson

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

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude. — Radhanath Swami

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

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More 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

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

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

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

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts. — Robert E. Lee

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

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. — George Graham Vest

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

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. — Mordecai Richler

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. — Brennan Manning

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. — Kahlil Gibran

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us. — Walt Kelly

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. — Che Guevara

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