Bitterness Quotes

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.