Resentment Quotes

"Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always."
-Dan Zadra

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."
-Barbara Sher

"There has never been any ego or resentment. Jim has always been gracious and shared his career with everybody else in the group."
-Scott May

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
-Ben Elton

"What President Bush encountered was the rising tide of resentment, both popular and among leaders ... that the Bush agenda just does not jibe with Latin America."
-Bruce Bagley

"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
-Al Capp

"Bisexual people can, depending on who they're in relationships with, 'pass' for straight and get heterosexual privileges. So resentment from gay people can be really damaging."
-Ben Hines

"I try to leave and come back without anyone knowing. There is resentment."
-Betty Bright

"At first, I think there was some resentment among those who loved the 6-player game. But I think eventually we realized it was the kids that made the game, not the number playing it."
-Troy Dannen

"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment."
-Elbert Hubbard

"Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning."
-Richard Roeper

"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters."
-M. F. K. Fisher

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."
-Kurt Vonnegut

"Don't you see the resentment that he's carrying, the pain that he's carrying? He gets into these problems and situations. It hurts me so bad when he has these problems, because I know there's an inner hurt there."
-Solomon Burke

"Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we are over there."
-Megan Mires

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
-Joan Lunden

"There's some things I've done wrong that I've asked forgiveness for, and there's some things other people have done that I've forgiven them for. I have absolutely no ill feelings, no anger, no resentment for anybody that's had anything to do with the past."
-Mike Dubose

"We in the rest of the Western states say okay, if we're going to conserve and if we're going to provide excess power and then we find you in California could have done more, there is going to be resentment."
-Jim Geringer

"He just wanted me to be careful and not make a decision off of a reaction and emotion or resentment or anything, ... but to make a logical, good decision."
-Lance Reynolds

"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love."
-Mary Manin Morrissey

"This is a top-to-bottom problem in France. It is not a mood or a moment, it is a deeply felt resentment for the government, for the changes that are coming."
-Richard Whitman

"It's funny to hear the rage that a holiday symbolized by cute little Cupids and fluffy things brings out in people. That resentment definitely makes you want to not just ignore the holiday but do something as a protest ... a statement against dinner for two and cheesy professions of love."
-Dannielle Romano

"If there's one word that I use to sum up what I'm hearing from customers, it's resentment."
-Michael Silver

"India just cannot afford to build resentment against multinationals and foreign investors."
-Raghavendra Rao

"This kind of thing can just bring out all the resentment and anger from one party to another because they feel one of their own people has been violated. It has not been easy for him."
-Chuck Sherwood