Ingratitude Quotes · Page 2

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

— Euripides

Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment,…

— Noel 'Razor' Smith

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

— Samuel Garth

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that…

— Saadi

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must…

— Ann Voskamp

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

— Pierre Corneille

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

— Mokichi Okada

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be…

— Lin Yutang

Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in…

— Francesco Guicciardini

“A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we…

— Anonymous

Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be…

— John Calvin

I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

— Roger L'Estrange

Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ...…

— Ann Wroe

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they…

— Max Lucado

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

— Samuel Johnson

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character.…

— Stephen Mitchell

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

— Bertolt Brecht

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes…

— Joseph Addison