Ingratitude Quotes - Page 5

• Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

  Machado de Assis

  Life, Dream, Kindness

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Wickedness

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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• Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Eye, Knowing Nothing, Names

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• Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jesus, Father, Blood

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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• 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

  Kindness, Government, Arrogance

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• PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Temptation, Add

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

  John Bunyan

  Ungrateful, Forget, Saviour

  John Bunyan (1839). “The pilgrim's progress”, p.267

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Eggs, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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• 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

  George Washington

  Real, Character, Pride

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.290, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hope, Worship, Despondency

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Patriotic Addresses in America and England from 1850 to 1885, on Slavery, the Civil War and the Development of Civil Liberty in the United States”

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• Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

  Ronald Blythe

  Acceptance, Joy, One Thing

  Ronald Blythe (1984). “Characters & Their Landscapes”, Harvest Books

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• 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

  Punishment, Stories, Merit

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• To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Heart, Ungrateful, May

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• According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

  Charlie Pierce

  People, Office, Tolerance

  "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection". www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.

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• We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Would Be, Influence

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• 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

  Kings, May, Reincarnation

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Selfishness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• 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

  Get Well, Men, Giving

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.60, St Athanasius Press

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• We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Tears, Shed

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• The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

  James Monroe

  Character, Rights, Important

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• The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Grieving, Blessing

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• Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Book, Wind, Tree

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• We should confess His hand in all things. Ingratitude is one of our great sins.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Gratitude, Hands, Sin

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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