Ingratitude Quotes

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God’s worship.

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

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

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn’t have.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel – the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man’s ingratitude.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

He that’s ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

It’s good to remind yourself that you’re lucky to be working at all. It’s very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

We learn the most from fools … yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

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

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude…
the absence of profound thankfulness.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood”.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

Our [people’s] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

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

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

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

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Josef Stalin once said that ‘Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.’ Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill’d by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

Ingratitude’ is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation’s blot, creation’s blank.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour’d
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

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

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

If we want to find happiness, let’s stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

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

Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others’ ingratitude.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.