Best 83 quotes in «grudge quotes» category

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.

The tranquilizers he had been given had worn off, leaving him with a drug hangover and a bitter grudge against the entire world.

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.

When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone.

You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

You expect to shut that feeling away? No, I ask that you feel it more. There's no other way to stand over your enemy and cut out his heart. Accept your hatred and you won't be rash or stupid, you'll be cold. Don't quiet the storm. Become the storm.

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

The wound never heals until the grudge is completely gone.

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God in every room. Today, we are divorcing resentment and marrying forgiveness. Sing, and God will find you in every tune. Today, we are divorcing indifference and marrying love. Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs. We have so much celebrating to do!

Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest evil does its work and needs no interrogation, their invectives are just a waste of time, and the world is the most sweetest to those with a functional taste buds.

To continue holding on to your grudges is to keep feeding your pain.

We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them." "And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open." Ash & Urian

You tried to eradicate me using your might, But I am going to live on ... out of spite. Will wait in the shadows ever so slight, And ... when the time is right, Ruin your whole life, like a pestering blight.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Ah, what a grudge I owe physicians! what mummery is their art!

Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.

Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

Basketballs dont hold grudges!

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.