A Quote by Nelson Mandela

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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Nelson Mandela
South African - Statesman
July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

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

Sandi Bachom

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

Anne Fortier

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Mark Frost

A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

Dorotheus of Gaza

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

Saint Augustine

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

Malachy McCourt

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

Neal Cassady

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

Corra May Harris

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Nelson Mandela

How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Joyce Meyer

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

Debbie Ford

Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.

Rita Rudner

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

Jack LaLanne

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Joyce Meyer

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