Ability Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

— Denis Diderot

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

— John Milton

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

— Anonymous

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success

— Anonymous

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants…

— John Steinbeck

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomiants of failure in our system. And those…

— John Steinbeck

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those…

— Baruch Spinoza

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld