#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

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

#blessed #career #i #life #never

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

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

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

The money is mine, not yours,” Reginald reminded her. “You ungrateful wretch. I found you an earl to marry, and your son will be an earl.” “You chose yourself a son-in-law,” Regina said. “You traded me for a title.” “You will thank me—” “—for dying and leaving me in peace.” “You will regret those words some day.” “I can manage the regret, if not my own finances. ↗

— Patricia Grasso

#finances #manage #money #ungrateful #money

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

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

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