Thankless Quotes

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.