Top 70 No Grudge Quotes
#1. I guess you could say I'm 'kind' to my past books in the way you might be kind to an old boyfriend you still quite like and bear no grudge against but with whom have absolutely no interest in getting back together.
Lynn Coady
#2. To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country!
John Hersey
#3. I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
Jami Attenberg
#5. She looked so cute wen she was apologizing that Helen couldn't even pick up a grudge, let alone carry one.
Josephine Angelini
#6. The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.
Criss Jami
#7. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.
George Herbert
#8. It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
P.D. James
#9. I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes.
Tony Fernandes
#10. I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#11. The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Renata Adler
#12. O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty
Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah
#13. It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.
Lee L Jampolsky
#14. Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.
Mary Renault
#15. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
Lloyd Alexander
#16. Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
SARK
#17. I liked working on 'The Grudge 2.' It was really fun, and I got to meet a lot of cool people. I think the film is a fine example of horror, and I felt excited that I could act in something like that.
Shaun Sipos
#18. Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you've got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
Benjamin Wood
#19. The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.
David Ogilvy
#20. I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
Tom Wolfe
#21. Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
David Winnick
#22. If you ever try to do anything to restrict my movements again, you'll find out I know how to hold a grudge too," she said between her teeth. "In fact, I have a real talent for it.
Thea Harrison
#23. Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges.
Dana Gould
#24. What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?
Charles Williams
#25. Hatred, rancor and grudge, they are not humanity elements; but you need to have them to survive.
M.F. Moonzajer
#26. The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.
Saint Sebastian
#27. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop
#28. Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible.
Arthur Dobrin
#30. No one knows how to hold a grudge like a proper Southerner.
Charles M. Blow
#31. I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.
Fran Lebowitz
#32. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
Emily Giffin
#33. Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
Richard Peck
#34. There must not be any single person in the world whom you should allow to rent a portion of your heart. Don't hold grudge. Forgive and move on...
Assegid Habtewold
#35. The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?
Brian Azzarello
#36. Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15
Winston S. Churchill
#37. I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.
Thomas Chalmers
#38. Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Maria Weston Chapman
#39. I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.
Anne Lamott
#40. Kye had scowled and said, "I don't like you anymore; you didn't come back when you said you would." Then he'd wrapped himself around her leg and said, "Okay, I forgive you." The kid didn't hold a grudge long.
Suzanne Wright
#41. Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.
Jeaniene Frost
#42. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#43. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.
Pema Chodron
#45. I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
Robert Breault
#48. I lived in a place where the weather holds a grudge against humans. Winter in Chicago is winter defined (..)
Royce Prouty
#49. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.
Linda Kage
#50. Rather than making you never want to eat chicken again, it simply makes you angry. It makes you hold a grudge. You'll eat chicken again, by God, and you'll chew really, really hard.
David Rakoff
#51. If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.
Mark Alders
#52. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
#53. As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#54. And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire
#55. Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
Vijay Mallya
#56. We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#58. I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'
Doug Harvey
#59. In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#60. Damn right I begrudge! I grudge every memory of yours that doesna hold me, and every tear ye've shed for another, and every second you've spent in another man's bed!
Diana Gabaldon
#61. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.
Tom Giaquinto
#62. Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people ... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli
#63. The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
Gautama Buddha
#64. Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.
Andrew Davidson
#65. Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
Robertson Davies
#66. People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
Jodi Picoult
#67. I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
Steven Adler
#68. That's where you're wrong," said Kaz. "I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins." "I'm
Leigh Bardugo
#70. I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.
Diplo