#ungrateful

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

— Louis XIV

#every #every time #hundred #i #make

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#long #people #seldom #serve #them

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

#another #fault #find #give #great

Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death #life #time #ungratefulness #death

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. ↗

— Timothy Dexter

#eating #hog #like #looking #man

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

#else #haven #lived #living #moment

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#be grateful #children #grateful #must #revolution

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #human #inspirational #understand

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

#am #i #i am #i have learned #intolerant