Resentment Quotes

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

One of the first signs that you’re beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

By criticizing,
we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees,
family members and friends,
and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

[On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.