21 Quotes on Bitterness

• You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

  Author: Emil Zatopek

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

  Author: Lech Walesa

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

  Author: Lech Walesa

• 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.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

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

  Author: William Thackeray

• Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

  Author: Sara Teasdale

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

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• Satire is focused bitterness.

  Author: Leo Rosten

• 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?

  Author: Robert Owen

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

  Author: Tatum O'Neal

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

  Author: Lucretius

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

  Author: Lucretius

• Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

  Author: Abdul Kalam

• 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.

  Author: Paul Harris

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

  Author: Bao Dai

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

  Author: Edith Cavell

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

  Author: James Broughton

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

  Author: Terry Brooks

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

  Author: Allen Boyd

• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Author: Maya Angelou

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