Resentment Quotes - Page 6

• If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Thinking, Secret, Behavior

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." 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, Karma, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 28, 2011

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• This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

  George Matthew Adams

  Life, Pain, Imagination

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• I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Church

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• The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Eye, Wrath

  "The Merciful Obtain Mercy". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2012.

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• If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Teacher, Journey, Reality

  "Eat Pray Love". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• I will not be alone if I am my true self. Only by trading my true self for the companionship of another have I ever made myself alone. Because when I gave up my real self, I wound up resenting my "significant other" for "making me" do that-and it was this resentment that ate away at our relationship.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Real, Anger, Self

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• As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

  Bette Davis

  Thinking, Female, Sometimes

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• I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

  William Joyce

  Able, Guilty, Deceitful

  Statement given by William Joyce under caution (May 31, 1945) as quoted in "The Trial of William Joyce" edited by J. W. Hall (p. 58), 1946.

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• 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

  Fashion, Suffering, Trying

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• You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Favors, Facts, Like You

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• When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Winning, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

  Paul Singer

  Earning, Earning Money, Superiors

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• You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Littles, Paid

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

  Roger Ebert

  Mind, Use, Way

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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

  Anthony Hopkins

  Expectations, Kind, Tension

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

  Matthew Weiner

  Artist, Thinking, Awards

  Source: deadline.com

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• There are no justified resentments.

  Wayne Dyer

  Justified

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2016). “10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Brother, Forgiving, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Poison

  Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.236, Anchor

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

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Years, Persons

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.220, Penguin

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• There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Agony, Hatred

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.57, e-artnow

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, May, Critics

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.394

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• Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Cancer, Heart

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