Resentment Quotes

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

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

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Simmering resentment saps energy.

You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.

Resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free.

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.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

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

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

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

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

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

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

Resentment makes anything possible.

Resentment creates stress.

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

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

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

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

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

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

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

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Resentment isn't a magnetic personal style.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

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

There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.