Top 573 Resentment Quotes & Sayings

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.

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.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

If white people on a larger scale really de-emphasized their whiteness, I think that would have to transform the Republican party into a more responsible party that couldn't get by on just playing into white resentment, especially white middle and working class resentment while taking care of the interests of plutocrats.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

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.

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.

When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

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

My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don't. Or, I have them and I can't live up to them.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

When it comes to sports, women are big targets for abuse because the resentment is two-fold. Some resent us for our confidence and beliefs. But there also is an added resentment because we are supposedly infiltrating a space that has been decidedly male.

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

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!

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

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

Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.

Resentment creates stress.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

People carry around resentment for years! And that creates daily stress.

Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life.

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.

Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

Resentment makes anything possible.

I don't live with judgement or resentment, I don't have time for it.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.