Resentment Quotes - Page 19

• Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

  Susan Glaspell

  Doors

  Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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• Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

  Hannah More

  Evil, Forgiving, Should

  Hannah More (1854). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.272

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

  John Avlon

  People, Ugly, Ends

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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Lonely, Memories, Home

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• When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.

  Ian Curtis

  Ambition, Tears, Different

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber

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• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  Widad Akrawi

  Disappointment, Regret, Sadness

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• You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

  Doreen Virtue

  Uplifting, Healing, Forgiving

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• 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

  Real, War, Patriotic

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

  Paul Kearney

  Revenge, Men, Two

  Paul Kearney (2010). “Corvus”, p.44, Solaris

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• Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

  Max Lucado

  Revenge, Fire, Choices

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• Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Sadness, Past

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• Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Sadness, Animal

  "Do Dogs Really Feel Pain and Are They Really Conscious?" by Marc Bekoff, www.psychologytoday.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

  Ralph Marston

  Heart, Jumping, Chance

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.

  James Davison Hunter

  Christian, Names, Tragedy

  "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.

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• I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Blessed, Destiny

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Kindness, Patriotism

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.423

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• Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Soul, Foul

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Mind, World, Dimensions

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• 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

  Travel, Mind, Kim

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

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• Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

  Jack Kornfield

  Compassion, Giving, Hatred

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Real, Practice

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Pain, Writing

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1816). “Lettres de Lady Marie Wortley Montagu, 'ecrites Pendant Ses Voyages en Europe, en Asie Et en Afrique”, p.322

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• It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to the law of nature and the government of God.

  Samuel West

  Men, Law, Heaven

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