Feels Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that…

— Heloise

Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— David A. Bednar

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we…

— Michael Josephson

A person who seeks for sense of gratitude from others is the person who doesnt know how to apply it to his own being.…

— Amy Pulumbarit

“But, as Otare Mannoni has pointed out, gratitude is a strange emotion in that it is made up of two seemingly contradictory expressions: first,…

— Frances FitzGerald

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay in kind somewhere else in life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

— Lord Chesterfield