(124 quotes found)
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment”
Dale Carnegie
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
Malachy McCourt
“I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception”
Mark Twain
“He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.”
Confucius
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
John Wooden
“The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment”
Elbert Hubbard
“Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.”
Paul Valery
“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you”
Peter Marshall
“Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.”
Barbra Streisand
“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