Quotes About Gratitude

Money gives its possessor the ability to give pleasure to others.

They forget the favors they have received and imagine they have earned their success by their own merits.

Not only is a man not obliged to be grateful, gratitude is often a terrible burden that he gladly discards.

Los hombres son más prestos a devolver un agravio que un favor, porque la gratitud es una carga y la venganza un placer. TÁCITO, ca. 55-120 d.C.

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything.

A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him.

If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. —Tacitus

Los hombres son más prestos a devolver un agravio que un favor, porque la gratitud es una carga y la venganza un placer.

What is offered for free is dangerous--it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.

Antes que nada, quisiera dar las gracias a Anna Biller por sus incontables contribuciones a este libro:

What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement

Gratitude, he said, quoting Stalin, is a dog's disease.

every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful.

it is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement.

If it is gratitude you want, get a dog.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

Thank you, the young mother said again. Thank you. The Black Tower protects, Logain heard himself say. Always. I will send him to you to be tested when he is of age, the woman promised, holding her son. I would have him join you, if he has the talent. The talent. Not the curse. The talent.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.

Light's truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it! -Mat

I am thankful to have two friends such as you," she said simply. Birgitte grinned at her as if she had said something silly.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long