Top 100 Quotes About Ingratitude
#1. For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.
John Calvin
#2. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.
Oswald Chambers
#3. God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.
Ezra Taft Benson
#5. Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.
Fethullah Gulen
#6. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu
#7. Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.
Orrin Woodward
#8. Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.
William George Jordan
#10. I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
#11. The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
Walter Savage Landor
#12. 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.
Philip Neri
#13. 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.
Jean De La Bruyere
#14. It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
W. Eugene Hansen
#16. those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.
John Calvin
#17. ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ...
Ambrose Bierce
#18. Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
Billy Graham
#19. Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#20. I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films.
Daniel Radcliffe
#21. 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.
Oswald Chambers
#22. We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
#23. Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.
Luigi Pulci
#24. If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
Dale Carnegie
#25. You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them.
Patrick Jennings
#27. 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.
Lin Yutang
#28. There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
Robert Brault
#29. In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
Saint Ignatius
#30. Gratitude is a Beautiful Virtue but don't get offended when ingratitude is shown or your good deeds.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#31. I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.
Katrina Kaif
#32. The other mother shook her head, very slowly. "Sharper than a serpent's tooth," she said, "is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love." And her long white fingers waggled and caressed the air.
Neil Gaiman
#33. Sharper than a serpent's tooth is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirits can be broken, with love.
Neil Gaiman
#34. Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
Michael Josephson
#35. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. Our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.
Alain De Botton
#37. We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.
Neal A. Maxwell
#38. 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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#39. 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.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. 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.
William Shakespeare
#41. It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
Jean De La Bruyere
#42. Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare
#44. We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#45. 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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#46. With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?
Jean Paul
#48. Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.
Max Horkheimer
#52. It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.
Charles Dickens
#53. 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.
Charles Dickens
#54. Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it.
Vincent Van Gogh
#57. Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.
Mokichi Okada
#59. Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.
John Milton
#60. What Erasmus called ingratitudo vulgi, the ingratitude of the masses, is increasing in the age of globalization and the Internet.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#61. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
Thomas S. Monson
#62. We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.
Ezra Taft Benson
#63. Dudjom Rinpoche has said, "The point of patience is to train so that our altruistic attitude is immovable and irrepressible in the face of those who hurt us with their ingratitude and so forth.
Lodro Rinzler
#64. The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.
Elizabeth I
#65. I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.
Brigham Young
#66. Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude ...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#67. Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
#70. I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry - then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. I
Mary Shelley
#71. 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.
Ann Voskamp
#72. 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.
Frederick The Great
#73. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
Jean Lorrain
#74. What exasperated her was that Charles seemed to have no notion of her torment. His conviction that he was making her happy struck her as impudent imbecility, his uxorious complacency as ingratitude.
Gustave Flaubert
#75. 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.
Alphonsus Liguori
#76. 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.
Elliott Abrams
#77. Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings.
William Arthur Ward
#78. 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.
Max Lucado
#79. 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.
John Lyly
#80. If our devotion is to the cause of humanity, we will be quickly defeated and broken-hearted, since we will often be confronted with a great deal of ingratitude from other people. But if we are motivated by our love for God, no amount of ingratitude will be able to hinder us from serving one another.
Oswald Chambers
#81. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#82. We must be on guard against the ingratitude and hypocrisy of our own hearts, or we will prove ourselves to lack genuine persevering faith. Let us examine ourselves and seek to follow the Lord in truth.
Anonymous
#83. 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.
Joseph Hertz
#84. It's supposed to be raining Thank Yous on Thursday, after an ingratitude draught. Also, you'd better enjoy my love while it's fresh, before it goes rotten and I have to sell it to McDonald's as chicken filler.
Jarod Kintz
#86. The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
R.A. Torrey
#87. The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
Oliver Goldsmith
#88. Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.
Alain De Botton
#89. I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#91. The greater the obligation in many cases, the deeper the ingratitude.
Robert Barr
#92. True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
Coco Chanel
#93. Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
Karl Kraus
#94. It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.
Martin Luther
#95. Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E.B. White
#96. 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.
Timothy Noah
#97. 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.
Giambattista Basile
#98. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson
#99. From one point of view it is an appeal to future ages from Florentine injustice and ingratitude; from another, it is a long and passionate plea with his native town to shake her in her stubborn cruelty.
Dante Alighieri
#100. Dogma
ideas uninformed by experience
is a form of ingratitude.
Susan Neiman
