Quotes about Ingratitude
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
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
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us
— Edmund Burke
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.
— Alphonsus Liguori
On the other hand, no man is saved mechanically or by force, but through faith, freely, by accepting the gift of God. This implies the contrary power of rejecting the gift. To accept is no merit, to reject is ingratitude and guilt. All Calvinistic preachers appeal to man's responsibility. They pray as if everything depended on God; and yet they preach and work as if everything depended on man.
— Philip Schaff
G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.
— Ravi Zacharias
The greatest benefits will not bind the ungrateful.
— Aesop
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
— George Washington
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.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.
— Henry Ward Beecher