Top 191 Ungrateful Quotes & Sayings

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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.

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

The wicked are always ungrateful.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Never be ungrateful.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

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.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.

Do not be ungrateful to animals.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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

Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

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.

You'll never see a happy ungrateful person.

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful," said Linette Owens, "but are you a dangerous lunatic?

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

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

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

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

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.

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

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

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.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to demand more.

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.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

I'm not an ungrateful person.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

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

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

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.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.