Ingratitude Quotes - Page 2

• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

  Brigham Young

  Sin, Knows, Greater

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

  George Washington

  Soul, Black, Sin

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1756). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.60

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Thinking, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.119, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Humanity, World, Conscious

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.623

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• Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Men, Ungrateful, Earth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.

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• Ingratitude is monstrous.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Monstrous

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.182

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Pain, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.454

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• Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greed, Worst, Avarice

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• 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

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• 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.

  Ann Voskamp

  Fall, Giving, Ungrateful

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Reality, Self, Suffering

  "Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations".

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

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• 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

  Humility, Past, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• There is no such way to get much grace, as to be thankful for a little grace. He who opens his mouth wide in praise, shall have his heart lled with graces. Ingratitude stops the ear of God, and shuts the hand of God, and turns away the heart of the God of grace; and therefore we had need to be thankful for a little grace.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Hands, Being Thankful

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• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thankful, Encouragement, Power

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• I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

  Laurence Sterne

  Vices, Dishonesty, Murder

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.331

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• 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

  Dog, Men, Broken

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.118, Discovery House

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• This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

  Denis Diderot

  Gratitude, Inspirational Christmas, Burden

  Denis Diderot, Sylvia Margaret Hill (1897). “Rameau's Nephew: A Translation from Diderot's Autographic Text”

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

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Butterfly, Profound

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.33, Conari Press

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Atmosphere, Should

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.37, Bridge Logos Inc

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• Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

  Horace

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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