Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. — Buddy Hackett
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head. — George Foreman
Short Grudge Quotes
May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges. — Gregory of Nyssa
Before you hold a grudge – hold a conversation. It may be a result of a misunderstanding. — Russell Brunson
Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships. — Wayne Dyer
Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges — Judy Collins
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. — Bob Dylan
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. — Samuel Beckett
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living. — Margaret Laurence
A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. — Christiane Northrup
Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free. — Ralph Marston
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. — Barbara Johnson
Holding A Grudge Quotes
Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett
I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim. — Maya Angelou
It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment. — Lee L Jampolsky
Let your dog teach you how to get the most out of life! If we could all be more like our dogs when it comes to living in the moment, being honest and authentic, and learning how to not hold grudges, the entire planet would be a much better place. — Cesar Millan
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. — Steve Maraboli
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God. — Charles Webster Leadbeater
Life is uncertain. Eternity is not. Unforgiveness cannot be allowed to last another day. Are you holding a grudge? You will never be more like God than when you forgive. Let it go. Kill the root of bitterness. Let the hurt go and set yourself free. — Craig Groeschel
Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind. — Joel Osteen
Me being a compassionate person, I would never hold any grudges against my ex. — Amber Rose
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody. — Mario Puzo
No Grudge Quotes
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. — Norman Vincent Peale
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose. — Marcus Aurelius
There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees — Ricardo Semler
No matter what the circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to. — Emily Giffin
I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate. — Harlan Ellison
To my great surprise, I never heard anyone cry out in the disorder, even though they suffered in great agony. They died in silence, with no grudge, setting their teeth to bear it. All for the country! — John Hersey
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. — Richard Peck
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. — Robertson Davies
I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame. — Steven Adler
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. — Bette Midler
Carrying A Grudge Quotes
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. — Henry B. Eyring
Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing. — Buddy Hackett
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. — Viktor E. Frankl
a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in. — Betty MacDonald
When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size. — Harold C. Schonberg
IF ANYONE DESERVES TO CARRY A GRUDGE, IT’S CHRIST. BUT INSTEAD, HE CARRIED A CROSS. — Jimmy Wayne
Personal Grudge Quotes
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power. — Auberon Waugh
Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest. — Isaac of Nineveh
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. — Mark Twain
He never bore a grudge against anyone he wronged. — Simone Signoret
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way. — O. Henry
Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism. — Dalai Lama
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. — Christopher Hitchens
I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling. — Robert Draper
I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges. — Zachery Ty Bryan
We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. — Joel Osteen
Letting Go Of A Grudge Quotes
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change. — George Carlin
What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed. — Theodore L. Cuyler
Begrudging others leads to disharmony. Without harmony there can be no happiness. Therefore, let go of grudges and restore harmony. In a harmonious world, happiness is possible. — Arthur Dobrin
They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet. — Liane Moriarty
Grudgingly Quotes
Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. — Henry VIII of England
The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts. — Shams Tabrizi
Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. — Nouman Ali Khan
When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die. — Chief Seattle
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God. — Saint Sebastian
Be grateful, for gratitude can bring life to life, it can turn a meal to a feast, resentment to love, a grudge to forgiveness, an enemy to a friend, a disease to hope, and you to enough. — Steven Bartlett
Grudges, regret, and resentment are mental prisons, and some of you are serving life sentences. It's time to set yourself free. — Steven Bartlett
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success. — Todd McFarlane
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. — Dominique Pire
Holding Grudges Quotes
I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me. — Anne Lamott
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long. — Robert Breault
Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. — Peter Benchley
Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not. — Sark
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
. — John Milton
We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds. — Joseph Wechsberg
There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness
where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they
didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do. — Tyler Perry
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
It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever. — Kobe Bryant
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge. — Steven Adler
The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you. There are no ulterior motives with a dog, no mind games, no second-guessing, no complicated negotiations or bargains, and no guilt trips or grudges if a request is denied. — Caroline Knapp
We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia. — Adam Phillips
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
-Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes. — William Haines Lytle
I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. — Anne Lamott
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain. — Wilfred Trotter
The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them. — Aristotle
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start. — Roz Chast
Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings. — Masaaki Hatsumi
Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change. — Nicky Gumbel
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