Resentment is a deep feeling of anger or bitterness towards someone or something. Quotes about resentment can provide insights into this negative emotion and help us understand its impact on individuals and relationships. These quotes often express the pain and negativity that resentment brings, highlighting the need to let go of grudges and find forgiveness. They emphasize the harmful effects of holding onto resentment and encourage finding inner peace and healing through understanding and empathy. Reading quotes about resentment can remind us of the importance of releasing this toxic emotion and moving towards a more positive mindset.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. — Nelson Mandela
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate. — Wayne Dyer
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. — Jos
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. — Ann Landers
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head. — George Foreman
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours. — Shannon Alder
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. — Buddha
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. — Zora Neale Hurston
Resentment and cynicism suffocate the human spirit. Choose optimism, and fight for the best possible future you can imagine. — Lex Fridman
Short Resentment Quotes
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. — Unknown Author
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. — Buddha
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. — John Wooden
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. — Roberto Assagioli
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. — Dale Carnegie
The envious never give praise, they only take it in. — Mexican Proverbs
Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford
May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges. — Gregory of Nyssa
If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever. — Cardi B
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott
Resentment Image Quotes
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Letting Go Of Resentment Quotes
Grudges, regret, and resentment are mental prisons, and some of you are serving life sentences. It's time to set yourself free. — Steven Bartlett
My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever. — Della Reese
The root of all of our problems is our inability to let go. — Leo Babauta
A coach is someone who can give correction without resentment.
Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective. — James Hunter
Rose quartz is said to be the stone of unconditional love. This crystal opens the heart chakra and is believed to encourage self-love and forgiveness, and to help you let go of anger, resentment, and jealousy. — Miranda Kerr
The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road. — J. Michael Straczynski
Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. — Melody Beattie
Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters. — Leon Brown
Holding On To Resentment Quotes
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
When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host. — Susan L. Taylor
Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. — Rick Warren
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate. — Deepak Chopra
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. — Thomas Friedman
Expectation Resentment Quotes
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments — Confucius
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him. — Frederick Salomon Perls
Expectations are resentments waiting to happen — Macklemore
Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott
People who expect deference resent mere civility. — Mason Cooley
If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. — Anthony Hopkins
Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive. — A.S.A. Harrison
Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations. — Anthony Hopkins
Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott
Anger And Resentment Quotes
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. — Henri Nouwen
I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me. — James David Vance
Anger, pain, resentment, and even hate are best healed through compassionate conversation, not through censorship and derision. — Lex Fridman
A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. — Ruby Dee
One of the first signs that you’re beginning to develop boundaries is a sense of resentment, frustration, or anger at the subtle and not-so-subtle violations in your life. Just as radar signals the approach of a foreign missile, your anger can alert you to boundary violations in your life. — Henry Cloud
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
It’s harder to be angry at home when we lose. When it was just me and the missus, she didn’t mind. She’d take the wrath of the loss! But it’s harder when there’s a little baby now. — Harry Kane
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. — Mario Puzo
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. — Corrie Ten Boom
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog. — Sai Baba
I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life. — Ja Rule
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient. — Paul Brunton
Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us. — Alana Stewart
Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. — Kevin Rudd
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment. — M. J. Ryan
I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment. — Robert E. Lee
No Resentment Quotes
Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long? — Andy Stanley
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love. — Maximus the Confessor
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. — George Santayana
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel. — Wayne Dyer
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
If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder? — Jacob Needleman
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself. — Sonia Sotomayor
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments. — Diogenes
At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them. — David Sheff
When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there? — Jack Kornfield
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that. — Maya Angelou
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. — Catherine Ponder
The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart
It is natural for the immature to harm others.
Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning. — Shantideva
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. — E. Stanley Jones
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. — Nathan Bedford Forrest
Resent You Quotes
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
I like to say, ‘Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.’ — Howard S. Marks
Before you hold a grudge – hold a conversation. It may be a result of a misunderstanding. — Russell Brunson
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, "Don't you worry about being called names?" retorted, "Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me? — Alain de Botton
I was truly the moment I came out where you really really understand the shame and toxicity you were carrying. — Elliot Page
You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments. — John Gray
When you wish for something over and over again and it doesn't come true, something else happens; not only do you give up, but you resent your wish and you resent wishing. — Elna Baker
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them. — Alfie Kohn
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it. — Epictetus
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others — Robert Greene
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. — Joel Osteen
Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words. — John Diefenbaker
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights. — James Madison
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. — Tom Robbins
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. — William Ewart Gladstone
I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws. — David Duchovny
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations. — Heraclitus
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it. — Bernard Berkowitz
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
Stay in the Zone. It is so easy in the midst of conflict to get lost in resentment about the past or in anxieties about the future. The challenge is to do the opposite and stay in the present moment, the only place where you have the power to experience true satisfaction as well as to change the situation for the better. — William Ury
I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship. — Stephen F Olford
In Conclusion
Quotations on resentment often shed light on the destructive nature of this feeling. They highlight how resentment can consume our thoughts and poison our relationships. These quotes encourage us to let go of the past and focus on the present, for resentment holds us back from personal growth and happiness. They emphasize the need for forgiveness and the power of empathy and understanding in overcoming resentment. Quotes about resentment can serve as reminders to embrace forgiveness, release negative emotions, and foster healthier relationships.
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