Bitter Quotes

1231 Bitter quotes by 852 unique authors

Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We… — Chaim Weizmann
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter. — Ralph Bunche
Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter… — Tori Amos
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous. — Juvenal
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work… — Khalil Gibran
Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and… — Germaine Greer
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache… — Louis L'Amour
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true… — Oscar Wilde
Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter. — Jerry Bridges
...Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. - where grateful happiness is found through understanding that whatever your situation is,… — Frithjof Schuon
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything… — Walt Whitman
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not… — Thomas Jefferson
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and… — Viktor E. Frankl
You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to… — Brian Tracy
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you… — Henry David Thoreau
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very… — Oscar Wilde
We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale. — Jennifer Chiaverini
I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA. — Sheryl Swoopes
We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter. — Ray Stannard Baker
We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John… — Francis Chan
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men… — John Calvin
Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't… — Jenna McCarthy

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