Cynic Quote by Ursula Curtiss Download Open image “who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?” — Ursula Curtiss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynic Defined Defined Gratitude Definitions Favors Favors Come Gratitude Gratitude Thanks Thanks Thanks Favors
Gratitude is merely the secret of hope of further favors. — Francios De La Rochecoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no… — Janey Colbourne Copy Share Image
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and impulsive: although… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing. — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Skeptics are always marked by their total lack of skepticism towards whatever position they are defending.” — Steve Madison Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong,… — John Reuben Zappin Copy Share Image
The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . .… — George Edgar Vincent Copy Share Image
