Resentment Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

  Blaise Pascal

  Business, Passion, Men

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• 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.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Home, Animal, Pet

  "Ellen DeGeneres On Life & Dogs". Modern Dog Interview, moderndogmagazine.com.

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• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Forgiveness, Wise, Mean

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.

  Stephen Fry

  Secret, Lessons, Taught

  "Stephen Fry's Idea of Greatness". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

  Charlie Sheen

  People, Fuel, Yeah

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

  Sam Keen

  Gratitude, Despair, Victim

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Meaningful, Disappointment

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Loneliness, Companion

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “You Don't Love Me Yet”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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

  Confucius

  Greed, Determined, Consideration

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• There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.

  Sheri Reynolds

  Heart, Space, Looks

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• Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

  Carson McCullers

  Flower, Poverty

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Ralph Marston

  Cutting, Annoyed, Frustrated

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Boredom, Pleasure

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Pain, Real, Suffering

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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• 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

  Tom Robbins

  Frustration, People, Demand

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• the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

  Ruth Rendell

  Weather, England, Climate

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• Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Real, Anger

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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

  John Avlon

  Radio, Conflict, Tension

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• If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Eye, Flames

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• Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Friendship, Children, Couple

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

  Debbie Ford

  Heart, Joy, Important

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