Resentful Quotes

• 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.

  Marissa Mayer

  Giving Up, Knowing, Resentment

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Insecure, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Selfish, Jealous, Conceited

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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

  Vanessa Marcil

  Resentment, Deny, Ifs

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• We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Grateful, Lynching

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• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Expectations

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• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  Irving Babbitt

  Humility, Self, Needs

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• Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

  Jerry Bridges

  Long, Suffering, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You”, p.66, Tyndale House

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• It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

  Spencer Tracy

  Appreciation, Giving, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Succeed, Failing

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Circumstances

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Focus, Unhappy

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• Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

  John Angell James

  Men, Ideas, Passionate

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• Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Bitter, Prison

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• Thankfulness
  can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
  are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
  circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be
  relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
  dissatisfied.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

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• You’re my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage. I spent so much time being resentful and lamenting the circumstances of my life, but ’tis true that I wouldn’t change a single thing because then I would have never known your love.

  Maya Banks

  Dream, Horse, Love You

  Maya Banks (2011). “Seduction of a Highland Lass”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

  Philip Pullman

  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

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• When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

  Pema Chodron

  Quality, Down And, Might

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Focus, Simplicity, Unhappy

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• By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight, afraid, angry, bored, etc. You thus use every uncomfortable emotion as an opportunity for consciousness growth. Even though you may still be feeling emotional and uptight, you begin to get at the roots of your ups and downs - your brief bits of pleasure and your long periods of unhappiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Roots

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, People

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