Dale Carnegie Quotes

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

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.

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.

I don't like to hold on to anger. It eats you up alive.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.