Top 130 Ingratitude Quotes & Sayings

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.

It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

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

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

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

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

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

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.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

The attitude of gratitude is yoga. Ingratitude is "unyoga," like "uncola." Where gratitude is, there is yoga. Where there is ingratitude, yoga is gone. That mind which does not live in gratitude is just like a junkyard. There are great cars there, but they don't work; they are useless, because they are junk. What are you without gratitude?

Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

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

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

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

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

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

It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

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

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

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