Best gratitude & favors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.”

“To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.”

Men Feels Made Remember Pride Proud Gratitude Prove Grateful Silent Favors Obligation Superiors Selfishness Vain Sentiments Be Grateful Incapable Oppressed Remembrance Unworthy Sour

Author:William Gilmore Simms

“Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.”

Want Feels Gratitude Favors Thanks Pleasant Sensations

Book:The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies

Source: The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies

“who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?”

Gratitude Definitions Favors Thanks Defined Cynic

Author:Ursula Curtiss

“There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive.”

Knows Littles Honesty Gratitude Envy Favors Injury Resentment Fades Flash Here And There Hiring Revive Condescension

Book:The 48 Laws Of Power

Source: The 48 Laws Of Power

“The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.”

“Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.”

Men Strong Secret Greater Gratitude Favors

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.”

Ifs Mind Wish Gratitude Please Painful Favors Vanity Sensations Wiser Accord Flattered

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.”

Gratitude Consequence Favors Ashamed Receiving Ingratitude

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.”

Men Done Values Mistake Kindness Pride Return Gratitude Agree Favors Occasions Giver Receiver Computation Agree Upon

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.”

People Looks Has Beens Sometimes Done Shows Opportunity Pride Gratitude Increase Favors Cheaper Benefactors

Author:Arthur Schnitzler

“The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.”

Earth Heaven Gratitude Favors Acknowledgment

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.”

May Moments Joy Turns Causes Too Much Pieces Produce Gratitude Thousand Gold Lifetime Favors Taoism Enmity Much Love Aloofness

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.”

Soul Done Gratitude Appreciation Favors Rope Love And Appreciation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

Secret Gratitude Favors Thankfulness Thankful Thankful Gratitude Inspirational Christmas Gratitude And Appreciation Thankfulness And Gratitude Great Gratitude Express Appreciation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.”

Looks Hands Given Grace Gratitude Blessing Favors Feds

Author:Rabia Basri

“This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs from the other sacraments in that it not only produces grace, but contains in a permanent manner the Author of Grace Himself. When, therefore, the Church bids us to adore Christ hidden behind the Eucharistic veils and to pray to Him for spiritual and temporal favors, of which we ever stand in need, she manifests faith in her divine Spouse who is present beneath these veils, she professes her gratitude to Him, and she enjoys the intimacy of His friendship”

“A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.”

Persons Gratitude Noble Favors Buddhist Being Thankful I Am Thankful

Author:Gautama Buddha

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