Ungrateful People Quotes:

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

- Douglas Wilson

topic: Ungrateful People, Heart, Thinking, Murmuring

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Ungrateful People, Tragedy, Favors, Indebted

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

topic: Appreciation, Ungrateful People, Giving, Blossoming, Ungrateful Person

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

topic: Ungrateful People, Scoundrels, Obligation

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

- Reginald Horace Blyth

source: Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

topic: Ungrateful People, Men, Garden, Thankful Gratitude, Thanksgiving Grateful

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

- Ana Monnar

topic: Ungrateful People, Forget, Grateful, Taking Things For Granted

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

source: FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

topic: Happiness, Ungrateful People, Adversity, Being Unhappy

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.

- Alfred Agache

topic: Thank You, Good Man, Spirituality, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: People, Ungrateful, Doe, Ungrateful People, Needy People

I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

- Michael Lee-Chin

topic: Hands, Jamaica, People, Needed Help, Ungrateful People

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Live And Learn, Taken For Granted

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Long, People, Ungrateful, Ungrateful People

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Gratitude, Enough, Turns, Daily Gratitude, Gratitude And Appreciation