If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
Sri Chinmoy
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 vivacity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bitterness; he would bear anything rather than oppose a person directly. Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.
Li Yaotang
We say those who suffered here ... your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not bitterness, not alienation. But joy (and) happiness.
Andrew Young
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.
Aldo Gucci
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
Anne Bront
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Harry Fosdick
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.
Marion Woodman
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness
Henry David Thoreau
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