Quotes about Resentment

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Votes: 6

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem. Votes: 5

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Votes: 4

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. Votes: 4

Resentment creates stress. Votes: 3

Resentment makes anything possible. Votes: 3

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style. Votes: 3

Resentment generates hate; love tries to understand. Votes: 3

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage. Votes: 3

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money. Votes: 3

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Votes: 3

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined. Votes: 3

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent. Votes: 3

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. Votes: 3

Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die. Votes: 3

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion. Votes: 3

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. Votes: 3

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Votes: 3

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Votes: 3

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. Votes: 3

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes. Votes: 3

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. Votes: 3

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. Votes: 3

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. Votes: 3

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. Votes: 3

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. Votes: 3

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices. Votes: 3

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? Votes: 3

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. Votes: 3

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. Votes: 3

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right. Votes: 3

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. Votes: 3

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves. Votes: 3

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being. Votes: 3

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer. Votes: 3

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. Votes: 3

The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger. Votes: 3

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Votes: 3

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. Votes: 3

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. Votes: 3

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. Votes: 3

Resentment is when you allow what's eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free. Votes: 3

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Votes: 2

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. Votes: 2

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Votes: 2

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. Votes: 2

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. Votes: 2

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. Votes: 2

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. Votes: 2

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. Votes: 2

Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts. Votes: 2

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Votes: 2

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life. Votes: 1

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us. Votes: 1

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. Votes: 1

Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. Votes: 1

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life. Votes: 1

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. Votes: 1

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. Votes: 1

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people. Votes: 1

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact. Votes: 1

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. Votes: 1

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. Votes: 1

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. Votes: 1

Simmering resentment saps energy. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment. Votes: 0

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. Votes: 0

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment. Votes: 0

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. Votes: 0

Fear of the unknown and resentment bring stress. Votes: 0

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment. Votes: 0

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment. Votes: 0

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Votes: 0

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream. Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment. Votes: 0

The tongue and pen are great outlets for wrath and resentment. (1849) Votes: 0

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment. Votes: 0

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment. Votes: 0

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. Votes: 0

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment. Votes: 0

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment. Votes: 0

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. Votes: 0

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment. Votes: 0

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs. Votes: 0

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose. Votes: 0

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. Votes: 0

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. Votes: 0

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions. Votes: 0

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. Votes: 0

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep. Votes: 0

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Votes: 0

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free. Votes: 0

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. Votes: 0

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE! Votes: 0

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin. Votes: 0

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free. Votes: 0

Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. Votes: 0

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. Votes: 0

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. Votes: 0

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear. Votes: 0

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. Votes: 0

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. Votes: 0

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. Votes: 0

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them. Votes: 0

My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment. Votes: 0

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. Votes: 0

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment." Votes: 0

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. Votes: 0

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose. Votes: 0

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. Votes: 0

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment Votes: 0

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. Votes: 0

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. Votes: 0

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. Votes: 0

His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. Votes: 0

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. Votes: 0

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it. Votes: 0

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. Votes: 0

Your anger and resentment can destroy peace but love can fill the world with peace and happiness. Votes: 0

The elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve. Votes: 0

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future. Votes: 0

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment. Votes: 0

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. Votes: 0

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. Votes: 0

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection. Votes: 0

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt. Votes: 0

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. Votes: 0

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. Votes: 0

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. Votes: 0

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Votes: 0

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient. Votes: 0

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job. Votes: 0

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. Votes: 0

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. Votes: 0

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed. Votes: 0

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else. Votes: 0

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. Votes: 0

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness Votes: 0

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. Votes: 0

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate. Votes: 0

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment. Votes: 0

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. Votes: 0

Anger and resentment are the cancer of our mind. To be cured, inject love in your heart and be kind. Votes: 0

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce. Votes: 0

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment. Votes: 0

There is enough heartache and sorrow in this life without our adding to it through our own stubbornness, bitterness, and resentment. Votes: 0

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. Votes: 0

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. Votes: 0

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly. Votes: 0

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do. Votes: 0

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate. Votes: 0

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. Votes: 0

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others. Votes: 0

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner. Votes: 0

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Votes: 0

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. Votes: 0

At the heart of all anger, all grudges, and all resentment, you'll always find a fear that hopes to stay anonymous. Votes: 0

Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world... Again. Votes: 0

Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it. Votes: 0

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned. Votes: 0

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment. Votes: 0

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness. Votes: 0

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility. Votes: 0

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years. Votes: 0

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. Votes: 0

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. Votes: 0

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good. Votes: 0

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply Votes: 0

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important! Votes: 0

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply. Votes: 0

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. Votes: 0

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Votes: 0

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings. Votes: 0

There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening. Votes: 0

Clean out your mind closet.Clean out resentment and hatred.Clean out regrets and secrets.Now fill it with love, joy and respect. Votes: 0

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'. Votes: 0

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. Votes: 0

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. Votes: 0

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom. Votes: 0

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. Votes: 0

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. Votes: 0

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters. Votes: 0

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. Votes: 0

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love Votes: 0

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. Votes: 0

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness. Votes: 0

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God. Votes: 0

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen! Votes: 0

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid. Votes: 0

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. Votes: 0

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff. Votes: 0

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff. Votes: 0

A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy. Votes: 0

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists. Votes: 0

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment. Votes: 0

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. Votes: 0

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic." Votes: 0

Election Day 2010 saw the culmination of years of aggravation and resentment toward a federal government that became disconnected and disdainful of the values and priorities of Americans. Votes: 0

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Votes: 0

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that everything is forgivable; some things are inexcusable but forgivable. Votes: 0

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again. Votes: 0

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy. Votes: 0

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement. Votes: 0

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate. Votes: 0

Bike lanes are the coolest. My favorite past time is flipping off cars from my bicycle. Just kidding - I'm more of a silent resentment kind of girl. Votes: 0

Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore. Votes: 0

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for. Votes: 0

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 fact of our life. Votes: 0

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free! Votes: 0

Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them. Votes: 0

I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God; they don't harbor resentment. I wanted to be a vet when I grew up. Votes: 0

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 a surge of selfishness. Votes: 0

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. Votes: 0

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. Votes: 0

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment. Votes: 0

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. Votes: 0

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears. Votes: 0

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment Votes: 0

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. Votes: 0

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. Votes: 0

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out. Votes: 0

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. Votes: 0

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right. Votes: 0

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief. Votes: 0

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists. Votes: 0

You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment. Votes: 0

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them. Votes: 0

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel. Votes: 0

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive". Votes: 0

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around. Votes: 0

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me. Votes: 0

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment. Votes: 0

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment. Votes: 0

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge. Votes: 0

Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. Votes: 0

The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation. Votes: 0

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment. Votes: 0

He will love this music to death. In a few more years, he'll snort at its sentiment and mock its stirring progressions. Once you've loved like that, the only safe haven is resentment. Votes: 0

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death Votes: 0

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. Votes: 0

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must rebuild Colombia, starting with ourselves, our hearts, put resentment aside, put hatred aside, put envy aside. The only thing that those attitudes accomplish is to sow violence and sow death and suffering. Votes: 0

We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints. Votes: 0

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. Votes: 0

The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current. I see only perfection and draw to me my own. Votes: 0

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made. Votes: 0

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. Votes: 0

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips. Votes: 0

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face Votes: 0

Muslims shared many of the deep-seated characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon elite-an intuitive resentment of culture, an amicable contempt for women, a proclivity for riding about on horses, a pleasure in discipline, and a covert homophilia. Votes: 0

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race. Votes: 0

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge. Votes: 0

A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. Votes: 0

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? Votes: 0

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host. Votes: 0

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness. Votes: 0

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote Votes: 0

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications. Votes: 0

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us. Votes: 0

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism Votes: 0