Quotes and Sayings about Resentment
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
- Roberto Assagioli
(Related: Forgiveness, Life, Resentment)
"At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger."
- Jacqueline Bisset
(Related: Anger, Time, People, Fear, Production, Resentment)
"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
(Related: Difference, Embarrassment, Resentment, World)
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Work, Fatigue, Frustration, Resentment, Worry)
"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
(Related: Time, Enemies, Resentment)
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
- Charles Churchill
(Related: Envy, Resentment, Whim)
"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
(Related: Anger, Thoughts, Mind, Resentment, Will)
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Act, Acting, Job, Resentment)
"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
- Ben Elton
(Related: Sympathy, Feeling, Resentment, Victims)
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
- Carrie Fisher
(Related: Drinking, Poison, Resentment, Waiting)
"Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it."
- Brian Austin Green
(Related: Control, Resentment, Worry)
"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world."
- Lee H. Hamilton
(Related: Power, Resentment, Restraint, Will, World)
"I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others."
- Lauryn Hill
(Related: People, Control, Resentment)
"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Greatness, Being, Criticism, Lies, Proof, Resentment)
"After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government."
- C. L. R. James
(Related: Government, War, Class, Resentment, World, World war)
"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
(Related: Faith, Fashion, Suffering)
"Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Anger, Faith, Government, Financial, Military, Popular, Resentment, states, Support, United)
"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."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Greed, Neglect, Resentment, Selfishness)
"A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit."
- Ted Lindsay
(Related: Family, Manager, Attitude, Resentment, Rumors)
"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."
- Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Related: Feelings, Character, Strength, Ability, Hurt, Resentment)
"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
(Related: Forgiveness, Life, Anger, Hurt, Laughter, Resentment)
"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you."
- Peter Marshall
(Related: God, Resentment)
"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
- Malachy McCourt
(Related: Poison, Resentment, Waiting)
"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
(Related: Anger, Guilt, Resentment)
"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
- Thomas Francis Meagher
(Related: Crime, Feeling, Jury, Resentment)
"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
(Related: Power, Life, Compassion, Resentment, Understanding)
"It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen."
- John Henry Newman
(Related: Resentment)
"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."
- Kim Novak
(Related: Beauty, Friends, Mind, Resentment)
"The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies."
- Richard Perle
(Related: War, Jealousy, Resentment)
"Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially."
- Dana Plato
(Related: Work, Growing up, Resentment, Vacation)
"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."
- Elihu Root
(Related: War, Peace, People, Enthusiasm, Resentment, Wrongs)
"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
(Related: Congress, Facts, Infatuation, Jobs, Opponents, Press, Resentment, World)
"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Gifts, Resentment, Unconscious)
"The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: Success, Metaphor, Resentment)
"People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack."
- Charlie Sheen
(Related: Work, People)
"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
- Barbara Sher
(Related: Resentment, Self)
"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
(Related: Authority, Resentment, Trying)
"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
(Related: Nature, Defense, Innocence, Justice, Resentment, Security)
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
- Tacitus
(Related: May, Resentment)
"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
(Related: Man, Oil, Resentment, Vice, Water, Will, Woman)
"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
(Related: Anger, Time, Fear, Culture, Disgust, Limits, Old, Resentment)
"Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: People, Angels, Humanity, Interest, Today)
"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
- John Wooden
(Related: Coach, Correction, Resentment)