Being thankful is something that we all should strive to do every day. It can be hard to stay positive and thankful in the face of adversity, but it’s important to keep our heads up and hearts full. Here are 100 ungrateful quotes that will remind us why we should always be grateful for what we have.
Ungrateful Quotes
- “Never be ungrateful.” – Lil Peep
- “Sadness is so ungrateful.” – Han Suyin
- “Hell is full of the ungrateful.” – Spanish Proverb
- “The wicked are always ungrateful.” – Miguel de Cervantes
- “Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.” – Immanuel Kant
- “A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.” – Saadi
- “The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.” – Aesop
- “Every greed is the root of ungratefulness.” – Laila Gifty Akita
- “The saddest of all hearts is one without gratitude.” – Tom Krause
- “Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.” – Ana Monnar
- “God protect me from the lazy, selfish and ungrateful.” – Habeeb Akande
- “What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.” – Seneca The Younger
- “You can be anything in this world, just don’t be ungrateful.” – Proverb
- “A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.” – William Arthur Ward
- “One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.” – Publilius Syrus
- “Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.” – Decimius Magnus Ausonius
- “People don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing them.” – Mike Skinner
- “There’s nothing you can say that won’t make you seem ungrateful or rude.” – Steven Petrow
- “In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.” – Wilkie Collins
- “But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.” – Anne Frank
- “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” – William Shakespeare
- “I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.” – Brigitte Bardot
- “The most ungrateful man I ever knew was the one that had the most to be grateful for.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “In life, you must never be ungrateful; but learn always to recognize and express your thanksgiving in small things.” – Sunday Adelaja
- “You should never be ungrateful for what you have, since the person who is grateful will always receive more.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Ungrateful people think what they have been given isn’t enough; Grateful people realize it is more than enough.” – Unknown
- “The only thing worse than an ungrateful friend is a grateful enemy.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Ungrateful people are blind to the gifts of life, and so remain chained to their own dissatisfaction.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
- “Don’t be too hard on yourself when it comes to being unappreciated, ungrateful people exist everywhere.” – Unknown
- “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that he didn’t exist and that we were all unappreciated and ungrateful.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Ungrateful people never think through what they don’t appreciate; they just don’t appreciate it.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “It is better to be thankful and appreciative of what you have than to complain about what you do not have.” – Unknown
- “People who get angry easily or who are ungrateful will never truly understand the beauty of life.” – Unknown
- “The only cure for an ungrateful person is the genuine appreciation of someone else.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
- “Ungratefulness often arises from forgetfulness, and that from not taking proper notice of mercies received.” – Matthew Henry
- “Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.” – Roger L’Estrange
- “Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?” — Denis Diderot
- “I have too many flaws to be perfect. But I have too many blessings to be ungrateful.” – Zig Ziglar
- “He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.” – Jonathan Swift
- “To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.” – Antoine Rivarol
- “A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.” – Seneca the Younger
- “Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.” – Chico Xavier
- “He that’s ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.” – Edward Young
- “Unhappiness is a contagious disease caused by a chronic deficiency of gratitude.” – Mokokoma Mokhonaoana
- “Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!” – Carlo Collodi
- “We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.” – Richelle Mead
- “You cannot, at the very same time, be grateful and unhappy, or ungrateful and happy.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.” – Ana Monnar
- “Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.” – Epes Sargent
- “Ungrateful are they who wish their life away. Ungrateful are they who turn their backs on others.” -Karalayne Maglinte
- “When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember… We have met the enemy; and he is us.” – Walt Kelly
- “Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and replay greater ones – with ingratitude” – Benjamin Franklin
- “He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Savior is unmerciful to himself.” – John Bunyan
- “Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
- “But the forgetful person can never become grateful, the benefit received is totally lost to him.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Never let ungrateful remarks prevent you from doing what you feel is right and good. Let God be your judge.” – Terry Mark
- “I do not mean to seem indelicate or ungrateful,” said Linette Owens, “but are you a dangerous lunatic?” — Cassandra Clare
- “Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.” -Cardinal Richelieu
- “Flints may be melted— we see it daily— but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.” – South
- “I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.” — Robert Kocharian
- “An ungrateful attitude is something most of us are unaware that we have, but everyone else sees.” -Dr. Louis Ngomo Okitembo
- “Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. – Robert Breault
- “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
- “You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe-or she will call you ungrateful.” – Martial
- “How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!” – John Newton
- “A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.” – David A. Bednar
- “Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “You’ll never meet a happy ungrateful person, or an unhappy grateful person because gratitude and happiness go together. ” – Zig Ziglar
- “Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.” – Edward de Bono
- “In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.” — George Graham Vest
- “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
- “No self-centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.” – Joseph Fort Newton
- “Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “A man’s indebtedness is not his virtue, his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.” – Ruth Benedict
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.” — George Sand
- “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.” – Seneca the Younger
- “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
- “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
- “Never ever seek for gratefulness from mankind, you shall always see ungratefulness. Do what you must do as a solemn duty and that is what you have to do!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “Ungratefulness is worse than cancer; it eats away at your soul; blinding your heart and eyes to the beauty and miracles that are all around us each day in our lives.” – Geraldine Vermaak
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.” – Dennis Prager
- “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
- “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.” – Vishen Lakhiani
- “It is difficult to be generous and kind to someone who has treated us ungratefully, but it will make us realize that being ungrateful does not bring any benefit. In fact, it only serves to hurt ourselves by creating more negative emotions within our own soul.” – Stephen Richards
- “Ungratefulness is an affliction that sneaks up on us and can soon become a way of life. When we don’t take the time to be thankful for what we have, it is easy to fall into the trap of taking everything around us for granted.” – Jack Canfield
- “Gratitude opens us up to receive more. When we are ungrateful, we close ourselves off from what is available to us. Being grateful and open-hearted leads us down a path of abundance, joy and inner peace.” – Gail Lynne Goodwin
- “Ungrateful people often can’t see their own blessings because they are too focused on complaining about their situation. Practicing gratitude will help you to remember all the good in your life and not become overwhelmed by the bad.” – Robert Holden
- “It is difficult to be happy when we are ungrateful for our blessings, but it is just as impossible to be at peace if we focus on what we don’t have rather than what we do.” – Richard Carlson
- “Ungratefulness is like a cancer that slowly but surely eats away at our happiness, joy and peace of mind. It’s important to be aware of this negative emotion and to practice gratitude instead so that we can attract more positive vibes into our lives.” – Nissar Ahamed
- “Ungratefulness is a weight on our hearts, but it can be lifted by being mindful of our blessings and grateful for each one. It takes practice, but the rewards are immense—including more joy and contentment in life.” – James Clear
Wrapping Up
Ungratefulness can have a negative impact on our lives, but it’s important to remember that we all have blessings in our lives. Taking the time to be grateful for those blessings is an important part of living a more fulfilling and happy life. By recognizing and embracing gratitude, we can open ourselves up to abundance, joy, and inner peace. Through gratitude, we can be empowered to make the most of every experience in life and appreciate each moment for what it is. Thankfulness invites abundance into our lives, so let’s choose to be grateful and enjoy the rewards!
