Top 100 Quotes About Resentment

#1. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

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#2. Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.

Terry Virgo

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#3. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.

Marie Rutkoski

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#4. I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.

Louis Gossett Jr.

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#5. Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled.

Stephen Richards

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#6. The unmet expectation is a root of resentment that damages many lives day in and day out.

Euginia Herlihy

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#7. if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered.

Stormie O'martian

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#8. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes

Eckhart Tolle

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#9. Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.

Debasish Mridha

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#10. The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

Asa Larsson

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#11. The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?

Simon Kurt Unsworth

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#12. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.

Kevin DeYoung

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#13. Resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.'

Laura Hillenbrand

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#14. To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future; and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.

Peter Frederick Strawson

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#15. How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

John Brunner

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#16. Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Sharon Salzberg

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#17. 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

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#18. We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

Tom Hodgkinson

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#19. When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

Sun Tzu

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#20. Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world ... Again.

Mary Summer Rain

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#21. When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

Eknath Easwaran

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#22. 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

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#23. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

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#24. I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

John Lennon

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#25. It was not a silence of resentment; it was the silence of an understanding too delicate to limit by words.

Ayn Rand

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#26. The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love

Johnny Rich

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#27. I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

Pierce Brosnan

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#28. Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

Nelson Mandela

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#29. Sometimes people would feign friendship for as long as it suited them. However resentment built, like dry kindling, stacked around a fire - waiting for the spark to ignite it.

Martyn Stanley

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#30. There is no loyalty in fear, only resentment,

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#31. Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

Colson Whitehead

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#32. Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!

Dana Arcuri

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#33. Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.

Billy Graham

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#34. Resentment, bitterness, and holding a grudge prevent us from seeing and hearing and tasting and delighting.

Pema Chodron

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#35. I have found that forgiving and releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer. While

Louise L. Hay

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#36. I have remained resentful to this day
When any but myself presumed to say
That there was anything I couldn't be.

Robert Frost

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#37. We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Neal A. Maxwell

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#38. Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Nelson Mandela

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#39. 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

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#40. A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.

Elisabeth Elliot

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#41. If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Leonard Jacobson

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#42. 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

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#43. There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

Kate Reardon

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#44. Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

Neil Kinnock

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#45. Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime.

Debasish Mridha

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#46. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

Winston Graham

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#47. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light.

Richard J. Foster

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#48. Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.

Brenda Waggoner

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#49. Holding onto resentment is like slapping yourself in the face and thinking someone else will feel the pain.

Nick Hernandez

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#50. Many people give out of obligation and compulsion, which leads to resentment.

Henry Cloud

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#51. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#52. Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Ayn Rand

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#53. Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

Alice May

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#54. When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Susan L. Taylor

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#55. May you allow fear to soften and melt away.
May you release all regrets and resentments.

Charlene Costanzo

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#56. Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by forgetting I existed. Ah, the moral victory.

Anna Kendrick

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#57. The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time ... as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go.

Wes Adamson

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#58. I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period." That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days.

Katy Rose

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#59. I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

Elton John

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#60. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#61. Whitestorm was experienced, wise and brave. When Firestar had been made deputy, he had shown not a scrap of resentment that a lesser cat might have felt. He had supported him from the beginning, and he was the cat Firestar naturally turned to when he needed advice.

Erin Hunter

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#62. Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Anne Lamott

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#63. Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Alana Stewart

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#64. Real sex is as much about reciprocity as it is exploration and if you need a reason to resent a man later on, just consider the guy who doesn't believe in cunnilingus ...

Roberto Hogue

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#65. I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

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#66. There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.

Sheri Reynolds

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#67. It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

John Irving

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#68. Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

M.J. Ryan

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#69. Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.

Sadhguru

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#70. There isn't what my father called the cruising hostility of the English press - where they're looking around for something to attack. You don't feel that there's a great reservoir of resentment in the press as you do in England.

Martin Amis

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#71. Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have been one of them.
Bill James

Michael Lewis

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#72. They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment.

Boris Fishman

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#73. A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.

Taite Adams

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#74. I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die

M.T.

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#75. There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.

Azar Nafisi

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#76. Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is - we have one, too.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#77. I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God; they don't harbor resentment. I wanted to be a vet when I grew up.

Ellen DeGeneres

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#78. A couple may claim to be bonded by love, but we boatmen may see instead resentment, anger, even hatred. Or a great barrenness. Sometimes a fear of loneliness and nothing more.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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#79. 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

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#80. One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Crawford

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#81. Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

Hamza Yusuf

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#82. 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

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#83. When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#84. You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Thomas Sowell

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#85. To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

Jonathan Lethem

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#86. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

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#87. More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Edward Sapir

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#88. In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Emma Forrest

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#89. Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be.

Julie-Anne

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#90. Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die.

Sandi Bachom

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#91. 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

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#92. He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.

John Le Carre

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#93. Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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#94. I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?

Diyar Harraz

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#95. Resentment is a cage, talent is a captured bird.

Elif Shafak

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#96. It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.

Victoria Aveyard

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#97. Watching him, it's easy to ignore Carter's miserable expression, Selena's resentment, to push Seth out of my mind completely. Because there is no way I'm going to let an indecisive angel tell me what I should and shouldn't do.

Katie Klein

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#98. It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#99. Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Mignon McLaughlin

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#100. His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.

Kim Edwards

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