Holding Grudges Quotes

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

There is no end to the creativity, ingenuity, and tenacity of those who look for reasons to criticize. They cannot seem to release their grip on grudges. They gossip and find fault with others. They nurse wounds for decades, taking every opportunity to tear down and demean others. This is not pleasing to the Lord, 'for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work' (James 3:16).

You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

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.

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.

Once you get to a certain age, if you have resentment towards people, it only affects you.

Don't hold onto negative feelings by justifying why you are right and someone else is wrong.

I can't hold a grudge anyway.

I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.