Quotes About Resentment

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

The Master said, "If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.

To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him;— Tso Ch'iu-ming was ashamed of such conduct.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

All of which was to say that the sketches I'd written over the years about the absurdity and arbitrariness of beauty standards for women had arisen not from my clear-eyed renunciation of them but from my resentment at their hold on me.

She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.

He resented the intrusion, he cherished his solitude as his only and last freedom in life.

She felt almost upper class; and at the same time a resentment against the ruling class smouldered in her. The masters!

She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.

Light, old boy? said Beatrice, tilting her cigarette at him. He bent forward to her to light his cigarette at hers. She was winking at him as he did so. Miriam saw his eyes trembling with mischief, and his full, almost sensual mouth quivering. He was not himself, and she could not bear it. As he was now, she had no connection with him, she might as well not have existed. She saw the cigarette dancing on his full red lips. She hated his thick hair for being tumbled loose on his forehead.

One was less in love with the boy afterwards, and a little inclined to hate him, as if he had trespassed on one's privacy and inner freedom.

Frequently he hated Miriam. He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account. When he was with her, he hated her for having

He hated you for what you said: that his tubified art is sentimental and self-important.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Resentment caused by a brash order may last a long time—even if the order was given to correct an obviously bad situation.

La crítica es inútil porque pone a la otra persona en la defensiva, y por lo común hace que trate de justificarse. La crítica es peligrosa porque lastima el orgullo, tan precioso de la persona, hiere su sentido de la importancia y despierta su resentimiento.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.