Resentment Quotes

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• 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.

  Catherine Ponder

  Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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• 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.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiveness, Keys, Doors

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Fear, Not Giving Up

  Dale Carnegie (2004). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• 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.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Night, Feelings

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.85, Sophia Institute Press

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Forgiveness, Holding On, Breaths

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2014

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• Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Pain, Past

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• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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• When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

  Diogenes

  Keys, Two Friends, Secret

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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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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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Boredom

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• When anger rises, think of the consequences.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Yoga

  "The Sacred Edict: Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He". Book by Yu-p'u Wang (p. 298), 1817.

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• 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.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Anger, Wrath

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015

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• When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Friendship, People, Hearing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Laughter

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Criticism, Members, Employee

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Insult, Neglect

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• Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hurt, Pride, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (0101). “Best of Dale Carnegie Vol-I”, p.13, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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