Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Gratitude

Quotes about: Gratitude

• I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Thinking, Extraordinary Moments

• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thankful, Gratitude, Secret

• No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Gratitude, May

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

• A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Men

• When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Desire, Virtue

• Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Strong, Men

• The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Men, Secret

• What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Pride, Benefits

• 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

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Pleasure

• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

• That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Kindness, Mistake

• Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Credit, Debt

• A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Men, Long

• Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, People, Debt

• Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Benefits, Lively

• Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Useless, Dictionary

• Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Grateful, Debt

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