Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

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.

Trying to give back a little bit is important.

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

I've always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn't use it anymore.

The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

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.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.