Resentment Quotes

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Strength, Hurt, Character

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Life, Anger, Hurt

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard

Able, Greatness, Lies

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

Work, Worry, Often

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden

Someone, Give, Coach

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
Mitt Romney

Success, Down, Different

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Waiting, Person, Die

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.
Peter McWilliams

Anger, Others, Ourselves

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli

Life, Endless, Governed

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Peter Marshall

God, Yourself, Else

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield

Time, Same, Gentleness

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
Donald Rumsfeld

Accept, Congress, Facts

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt

Waiting, Person, Die

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
Al Capp

Live, Different, Else

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
John Dryden

Anger, Mind, Long

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith

Nature, Justice, Security

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Nikki Sixx

Trying, Young, Problem

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
Rowan Williams

Time, Fear, Anger

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.
Marissa Mayer

Giving, Makes, Knowing

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

May, Show, Deserved

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

Woman, Understand, Water

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.
Lauryn Hill

Control, Others, Forgive

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Time, Happy

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
David Duchovny

Single, Down, Understand

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

Faith, Fashion, Try

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
Jacqueline Bisset

Time, Fear, Anger

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
William Hague

End, Political, Violence

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Craig T. Nelson

Power, Give, Through

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
Kevin Rudd

Life, Great, Anger

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