Ungrateful Quotes

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

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.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the object of your attention blossoms and flourishes.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.