Resentment Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Use, World, Restraint

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• Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." 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!

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Karma, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 28, 2011

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• 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.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Heart

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• This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

  George Matthew Adams

  Life, Pain, Imagination

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• One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Excellence, Relief

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• I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, History, Way

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• One of the first signs that you’re beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life.

  Henry Cloud

  Frustration, Firsts, Boundaries

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2017). “Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life”, p.170, Zondervan

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• When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hate, Long, People

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• I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

  William Joyce

  Able, Guilty, Deceitful

  Statement given by William Joyce under caution (May 31, 1945) as quoted in "The Trial of William Joyce" edited by J. W. Hall (p. 58), 1946.

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• If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Kind, Tension

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Winning, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Fashion, Suffering, Trying

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• You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Favors, Facts, Like You

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• Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

  Paul Singer

  Earning, Earning Money, Superiors

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• There are no justified resentments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Justified

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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

  Roger Ebert

  Mind, Use, Way

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

  Matthew Weiner

  Artist, Thinking, Awards

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Littles, Paid

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Forgiving, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Poison

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.236, Anchor

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• I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Years, Persons

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.220, Penguin

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• 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.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stronger, Normal, Peter

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• 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

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Depressing, Self Esteem, Views

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Shamanism has a long history and exists to this day because of its ties to universal emotions such as happiness, sorrow, resentment, and love. It can function as an outlet during struggles with life and death and the burdens of society's absurdities including the divide between rich and poor. It opens up a way to confront reality.

  Hyon Gyon

  Struggle, Reality, Life And Death

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Tyrants, Hatred, Reign

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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