Debt Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

— Mark Twain

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Actual Gratitude is the Symptom of Humility.

— Radhanath Swami

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

— Pierre Charron

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations…

— Oliver Goldsmith

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With…

— John Piper

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

— Lord Chesterfield

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

— Denis Diderot

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten…

— Anonymous

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

— Samuel Johnson