Best gratitude & obligation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.”

Thinking Men Lying Virtue Duty Gratitude Thousand Ten Guides Punishment Obligation One Man Virtuous Giver Apprehension

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume

“Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.”

Thinking Kind Found Circumstances Gratitude Debt Obligation Submit Humiliation Acknowledgment Mortification Proclaiming

Book:Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

“the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.”

Waiting Gratitude Obligation Thanks Procrastination Expressing Gratitude

Book:Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.”

Love Is Pay Dangerous Gratitude Debt Experiments Obligation Allies Inclination

Author:Blaise Pascal

“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

“Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.”

Feels Pleasure Gratitude Obligation Moderates Ungrateful Trifling Repaying

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.”

“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”

Mind Pain Pleasure Return Gratitude Benefits Species Revenge Obligation Impatient Inferiority Recompense Exacting Revenge

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.”

Want Feels Mother Son Flower Gratitude Raises Endure Obligation Teeth Celebrate My Son Lunch Display Mothers Day Grit Annuals Want Him

Author:Anne Lamott

“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”

“Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.”

Men World Inspirational Born Gratitude Obligation Inspirational Christmas Gratitude And Appreciation

Author:E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

“Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.”

Given Gratitude Concern Appreciation Caring Genuine Obligation Acknowledge Being Thankful Courtesy

Author:Michael Josephson

“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”

Use Today Opportunity Work Doors Achieve Gratitude Thousand Sacred Privilege Obligation Enterprise Worthwhile Inviting Inspirational Christmas Today Is The Day

Book:Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day

Source: Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day

“The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

Has Beens Enough Hands Religion Morality Gratitude Obligation Acknowledge Wicked Providence Infidel

Book:The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts : with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”

Forget Break Blood Gratitude Ambition Obligation Ties My Ambition Inspirational Christmas

Author:Sallust

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