Motivational Quotes

Revenge

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.

- Stuart, Mary

Best Quotes about Revenge

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

Jefferson, John

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Johnson, Samuel

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams

Success is the sweetest revenge.

Williams, Vanessa

Surviving well is your finest revenge.

Nito, Morgan

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Weckler, Walter

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Sir Francis Bacon

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.

Johnson, Samuel

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You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Holtz, Lou

11.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

Don't get mad, get even.

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

The Talmud

14.

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

15.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Bacon, Francis

17.

No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.

Stuart, Mary

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That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.

Brown, Les

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Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

O'Malley, Austin

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She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

McGill, Ralph

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The best revenge is massive success.

Sinatra, Frank

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Ann Radcliffe

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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Porter, Jane

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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Proverb, German

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Bacon, Francis

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You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.

Armey, Dick

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While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.