Medgar Evers Quotes

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

It would much conduce to the settlement of your hearts, to consider, That by fretting and discontent, you do yourselves more injury thart till the afsltilions you lie under could do; your own discontent is that which arms your troubles with a sting; it is you that make your burden heavy, by struggling under it. Could you but lie quiet under the hand of God, your condition would be much easier and sweeter than it is.

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

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

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?

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.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.