Resentment Quotes

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!

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

Expectations are resentments under construction.

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

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.

You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

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

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

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

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

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.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

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

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

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

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.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

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

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

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

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.

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

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

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.