Resentful Quotes

• 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 Up, Knowing, Resentment

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

  Nelson Mandela

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Spiritual

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

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Insecure, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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

  Vanessa Marcil

  Resentment, Deny, Ifs

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• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Selfish, Jealous, Conceited

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Grateful, Lynching

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• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Expectations

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• Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

  Irving Babbitt

  Humility, Self, Needs

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• Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

  Jerry Bridges

  Long, Suffering, Growing

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You”, p.66, Tyndale House

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• Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Succeed, Failing

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Scare, Circumstances

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

  Spencer Tracy

  Appreciation, Giving, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Focus, Unhappy

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• Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

  David Jeremiah

  People, Bitter, Prison

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• Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

  John Angell James

  Men, Ideas, Passionate

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• Thankfulness
  can reduce stress in your life by making you more content with who you
  are and what you have. If you make a habit of accepting every
  circumstance gratefully and assuming there is a purpose in it, you'll be
  relieved from the worry and anxiety that go with being resentful and
  dissatisfied.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Technology, Soul, Rebel

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.

  Arlene J. Chai

  Cancer, Emotional, People

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• I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

  Anna Kendrick

  Movie, Couple, Thinking

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• Yeah, this country's founding fathers are a bunch of dead rich white men, but they did set things up so you could come and sit at the table, so don't piss in the finger bowls, all right? Thank you. In return for unfettered economic opportunity and no government death squads, try to get along with your new stepmotherland, and don't be resentful if there's a set of house rules already in place.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Father, Opportunity

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.31, Main Street Books

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• When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, “How can this interaction help me grow?

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Choices, Vampire

  Judith Orloff (2009). “Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life”, p.122, Harmony

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• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Reading, Men, White Man

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• It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Guilt, Opponents, Might

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