Top 100 Quotes About Ungrateful
#1. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
David A. Bednar
#2. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
Cyril Connolly
#3. What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
Robert E.Lee
#4. Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
Roger L'Estrange
#5. 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.
Seneca The Younger
#6. I know and I'm sorry. (Epithymia)
So am I. I'm sorry I ever trusted you with the one thing you knew I loved above all others. You ungrateful bitch! I hope your actions haunt you into eternity. (Apollymi)
(Apollymi blasted her sister to death.)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful ... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.
Nesta Helen Webster
#8. When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.
Alec Sulkin
#10. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.
Steve Maraboli
#11. Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for dinner, or The CEO who is ungrateful for the type of wine served with his 5-star meal?
Julia Rose
#12. He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Edward Young
#13. Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
Jeannette Walls
#14. It was nice of you to help that ungrateful little girl out." Blake unloaded his belongings onto his bed.
"Ah, I've got a soft spot for kids. They're so fucking little.
Debra Anastasia
#15. My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
Richelle Mead
#16. The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
Alain De Botton
#17. Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
Epes Sargent
#18. A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.
Constance Baker Motley
#19. I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot
#20. Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
Carlo Collodi
#21. So make remembrance of Me, and I will make remembrance of you. And show thanks to Me, and do not be ungrateful.
Anonymous
#22. I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
Mandy Patinkin
#23. Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
#24. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful
Cathy Cash Spellman
#27. If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
Roger L'Estrange
#28. And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
Robert Kocharian
#30. Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues ... but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge.
Ilona Andrews
#32. If you are ungrateful for one blessing,
you will not be grateful for two.
If you are ungrateful for two blessings,
you will not be grateful for three.
If you are grateful for one blessing,
you will be grateful for innumerable.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#34. Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
Saint Basil
#35. Life is a gift. If we don't live it well, we are being ungrateful. And we have to love the ones who journey with us. (A Nail Through the Heart)
Timothy Hallinan
#36. The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.
Rose Tremain
#37. I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list
Franny Billingsley
#38. She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.
Charles Dickens
#40. 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.
Saint Francis De Sales
#41. [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.
Lionel Shriver
#42. God protect me from the lazy, selfish and ungrateful.
Habeeb Akande
#43. Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.
Frithjof Schuon
#45. When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.
Nhat Hanh
#46. If you're always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.
Jeanette Coron
#47. My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay
Larry Smith
#48. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV
#49. Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?
Augustine Of Hippo
#51. If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!"
Mickey Rooney
#52. You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.
Ron Marz
#53. Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.
Jose Marti
#54. Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.
Ana Monnar
#55. Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
Walter Savage Landor
#56. A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.
Simon Scarrow
#57. 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.
Paul McCabe
#58. One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
Publilius Syrus
#59. I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
Sofia Vergara
#61. I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?
Cassandra Clare
#62. He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.
Margaret Atwood
#63. The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#64. I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
Emily Meade
#65. The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#66. How does it feel to be one of the unwilling, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful, ordered by the ignorant, led by the incompetent?" Levine asked.
Tim Davis
#68. To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike
#69. Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
Saadi
#70. 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.
Dennis Prager
#71. A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
John Milton
#72. far as I was concerned we were extremely lucky to have a mother who was so devoted, so encouraging, such fun - how ungrateful would it be to focus on a disappeared dad? Shouldn't we be glad for the good things?
Belinda Jones
#73. How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.
Lori Lansens
#74. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked (Luke 6:35).
Michele Woolley
#76. You once asked if I told Maxon about you, and I did. He knows exactly what a spineless, ungrateful jackass you are.
Kiera Cass
#77. To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
Antoine Rivarol
#78. You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe
or she will call you ungrateful.
Martial
#79. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
Robert South
#81. When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
Peter Fonda
#82. BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius
#83. In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
George Graham Vest
#84. This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#85. One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering.
Publilius Syrus
#86. Then take it as it is. It's a gift. How or why is irrelevant, but if we don't enjoy it, we are ungrateful, he said and brought his face very close to mine. His eyes seemed to sparkle in the moonlight, mesmerizing me.
Rubianne Wood
#87. Maybe you all didn't notice,but when that hospital was about to crumble with all those innocent people inside, Thom was the only one who stopped the Wrecking Balls. The only finger I feel like pointing right now is my middle one, at all of you, bunch of ungrateful wretches, if you ask me.
Perry Moore
#88. It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#90. People think that I'm really untouchable, and that's also translated into a lot of people thinking that I'm super-ungrateful.
Kristen Stewart
#91. You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.
Zig Ziglar
#92. When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember ... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
Walt Kelly
#93. They could never make me hate you. Even though what you was doing wasn't tasteful.. Even though you out here looking so ungrateful.. I'm a keep it moving, be classy and graceful
Nicki Minaj
#95. Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.
Ana Monnar
#96. It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Philip James Bailey
#97. Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#98. Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#99. Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates ... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#100. But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
Anne Frank
