Resentment Quotes

428 quotes by 347 authors

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by… — Neal A. Maxwell
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity,… — Maximus the Confessor
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion.… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else. — Alice May
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I
He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. — Confucius
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned. — Dale Carnegie
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has… — Man Ray
You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open… — Leonard Jacobson
Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away. — Sandi Bachom
Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die. — Sandi Bachom
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose… — Ludwig von Mises
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. — Neil Kinnock
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. — William B. Munro
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M.F.K. Fisher
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and… — Henri Nouwen
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?… — Dale Carnegie

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