Resentment quotes
134 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that."
"It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness"
"Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come."
"In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge."
"Expectations are resentments under construction."
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"I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything."
"By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment."
"The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment."
"The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned."
"Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system."
"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 Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment."
"I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us."
"So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood."
"What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate."
"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."
"Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection."
"I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."
"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."
"Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
"Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it."
"The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply."
"At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable."
