Best 192 quotes in «resentment quotes» category

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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

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.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

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.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

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

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.

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.

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

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

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

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

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

Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

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

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

[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.

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

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

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

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

The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.

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

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

To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think.

A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.

A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.

Anger is a forward-looking emotion, rooted in the idea that there should be change. Resentment, on the other hand, is locked in the past and usually generates no meaningful difference in the situation.