Thankless Quotations

When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great change, you have the responsibility.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

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

Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart!

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing.

He was always searching for the next big thing, changing jobs, going back to school. My mother would cook, clean, keep the family together. She was in one of those thankless jobs. I used to be in awe of her.

He can't use that excuse anymore that he's got a thankless job. He can actually do something good and get noticed for it.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I think acting is the most thankless profession in the world.

It is a thankless part. But having Tommy play Victor has made me re-evaluate the character.

Translation is a notoriously thankless profession: there is absolutely no money in it; it involves a severe submersion of the self into another; the hours are long and you get about as much recognition for your efforts as the telephone repairman.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

It's really kind of a thankless task -- I mean, they get something out of it; they get to see music, and there's kind of a joy in choosing which musicians you want people to hear. But week after week, it's quite astounding.

No longer can we give the excuse he's got a thankless job.

They are mostly career people doing a thankless job that not everybody understands how tough it is ... and they are really down right now. They are as down as I've seen them in terms of just worrying about their futures and the future of what they do and the respect for what they do.

I marvel at him each week. That's such a thankless position, and he puts forth a tremendous effort every time out. It's such a lift for the team when we create offense on the defensive end of the field like that.

Being a caregiver is the most thankless role in the world. Everybody gives the patient some slack, as they should, but the caregiver has the stress of life and then you put a catastrophic illness on top of it, and the stress goes through the roof.

If it happens, I guess I can understand it because of the pressures. The life of a coach, it's one of those thankless jobs.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

I would say 'no'! It's such a thankless job. If you do great, nobody mentions it. If you don't, everyone complains. It's a lot of work.