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  • It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. -- Suzanne Farrell
  • We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful. -- Brigitte Bardot
  • Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. -- Louis XIV
  • Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? -- Saint Basil
  • I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government. -- Robert Kocharian
  • The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. -- John Updike
  • 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
  • When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father. -- Peter Fonda
  • 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
  • The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
  • 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
  • The wicked are always ungrateful. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
  • What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away. -- Seneca the Younger
  • But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. -- Anne Frank
  • There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
  • I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet. -- Eric Andre
  • He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. -- John Bunyan
  • In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. -- George Graham Vest
  • It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. -- Mother Teresa
  • 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
  • Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for. -- Ana Monnar
  • 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
  • All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but itâ??s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. -- Dennis Prager
  • It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America. -- Jaime Camil
  • 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
  • Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes. -- Paul Stanley
  • It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. -- Dennis Prager
  • 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
  • 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
  • I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear. -- David Roberts
  • Sadness is so ungrateful. -- Han Suyin
  • Do not be ungrateful to animals. -- Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
  • A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. -- William Arthur Ward
  • You'll never see a happy ungrateful person. -- Zig Ziglar
  • The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. -- Aesop
  • One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. -- Publilius Syrus
  • A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. -- Saadi
  • One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people. -- Publilius Syrus
  • [Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. -- John Milton
  • Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. -- Epes Sargent
  • There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude. -- Steven Petrow
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  • Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced. -- Chico Xavier
  • A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. -- Seneca the Younger
  • To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. -- Antoine Rivarol
  • Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? -- Denis Diderot
  • The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart. -- Ana Monnar
  • A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. -- David A. Bednar
  • My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. -- Richelle Mead
  • Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. -- Edward Young
  • I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful. -- Zig Ziglar
  • There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful. -- Dorothy Day
  • Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have! -- Carlo Collodi
  • I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic? -- Cassandra Clare
  • He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way. -- Edward de Bono
  • 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
  • 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
  • It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us. -- Walt Kelly
  • Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present! -- John Newton
  • "?"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial -- Marcus Aurelius
  • You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful. -- Martial
  • 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
  • The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. -- George Sand
  • 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
  • It's hard to cover for someone who's disrespectful and ungrateful...To say, 'I didn't quit the band' is just not true. It's disingenuous. -- Mark Hoppus
  • Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. -- Robert South
  • You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. -- Philip Massinger
  • Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody -- Susan B. Anthony
  • But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired. -- Melanie Benjamin
  • 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. -- Ann Voskamp
  • The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
  • 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
  • To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • 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
  • Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. -- Che Guevara
  • 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
  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful! -- Gustave Flaubert
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  • If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich. -- Tony Robbins
  • When you meet an ungrateful person, be great. The moment you become great, you will become fulfilled. There is no other secret. Nothing else will give you fulfillment. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
  • It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable. -- Jean de La Fontaine
  • [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
  • There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. -- William Hazlitt
  • 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
  • Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children. -- Adolf Hitler
  • There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful. -- Kevin Sampsell
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • 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
  • It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions. -- Rhonda Byrne
  • It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
  • It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • 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
  • I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. -- Marcus Aurelius
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