Resentment Quotes

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

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.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.

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.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

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

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

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

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

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

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

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

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.

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