Top 42 Quotes About Holding A Grudge
#1. 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
#2. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.
Pema Chodron
#3. Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.
Joel Osteen
#5. Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
Timothy Keller
#6. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Booker T. Washington
#7. It was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#8. The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
Seth Godin
#9. I knew that holding a grudge only hurts the one who holds it. It only eats away at the one who has the anger and bitterness inside.
Lisa Lace
#10. The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.
Jon Stewart
#11. I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
Robin Williams
#12. My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.
Anna Banks
#13. Letting go is impossible when you're holding a grudge. -Faydra D. Fields
Faydra D. Fields
#14. Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free.
Craig Groeschel
#15. 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
#16. Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt, but the two rarely meet. Let go ... Sometimes, forgiveness is simply a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
#17. Most of the people who feel they are unhappy now are holding a grudge and wishing unhappiness on that person.
CLAMP
#18. 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
#20. Do you think peace of mind can be found in holding a grudge ... or harboring resentment ... or wallowing in thoughts of what could have been? Me neither.
Steve Maraboli
#21. I HATE FIGHTING. I hate being wrong, but I hate fighting more than I hate being wrong. I'm just not good at the grudge-holding thing. I get mad, scream about it and let go.
Claire Contreras
#22. Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.
Maggie Cox
#23. My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly ... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.
James Dobson
#24. A motorcycle was the worst form of transportation when you were holding an angry grudge against its driver.
Kristen Ashley
#25. You are wise only if despite of being capable of taking a revenge & holding onto a grudge, you choose to forgive!
Anamika Mishra
#26. Florida wants to change the state's motto to attract younger people. They're thinking about: More than just a great place to die.
Joan Rivers
#27. But at eight, I only knew one thing. Mother said God put each of us on this earth for a purpose, and that day I decided mine was to save Nick Anderson
-The Sweet Gum Tree
Katherine Allred
#28. At Dust or Magic, they call the iPad a rattle on steroids.
Anonymous
#29. Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
Lawrence Welk
#30. I hope you never hate anything longer than you need to.
Iain S. Thomas
#31. Holding onto a grudge gives you an extra load to carry in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
Criss Jami
#36. Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.
Jane Hirshfield
#37. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Margaret Atwood
#38. Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead
Nay, I swim with sea-demons
no sweet summer tuned radio
over my sunless desertscape
how does it burn without the sun?
Moonshine Noire
#39. The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.
Ruth Ozeki
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
Victor Hugo