Quotes About Grudges

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?

I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Pentru firea mea, nu pun mana in foc. Este, cred, prea putin ingaduitoare; sigur, prea putin, pentru a conveni celorlalti. Nu pot uita prostiile si pacatele oamenilor atat de repede pe cat ar trebui, si nici ofensele pe care mi le aduc. Nu ma las impresionat de orice incercare ce s-ar face de a ma emotiona. Caracterul meu ar putea fi numit ranchiunos. Buna mea parere o data pierduta, este pierduta pentru vecie.

And those you never forgive you find impossible to forget. — Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (McClelland & Stewart, 1997)

We should learn not to hold grudges and be positive all the time because life is too short and unpredictable.

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."–Criss Jami American poet and author of Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

To his dying day, it is obvious, Hitler never forgave his teachers for the poor marks they had given him—nor could he forget. But he could distort to a point of grotesqueness.

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

One of the favorite pastimes of Backstabbers is recounting slights and grievances they've carried for years.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Moi, je ne tiens pas les rancunes et j'avoue tout, complaisamment : pour l'autocritique, je suis doué, à la condition qu'on ne prétende pas me l'imposer.

People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself—making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.