A Quote by Robin Williams

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

Robin Williams

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Robin Williams
American - Comedian
July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

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

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Booker T. Washington

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

When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

John C. Maxwell

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Margaret Atwood

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

Jon Stewart

Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?

Dave Hunt

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Maureen Lipman

We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.

Geert Wilders

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

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

Seth Godin

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.