It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert G. Menzies
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around
Abdul Kalam
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jr
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King Jr
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
William Arthur Ward
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Albert Einstein
There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.
Amy Carmichael
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.
John Keats
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Bible
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo