Bitter Quotes - Page 30

• God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Gold, Helpful, Used

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• I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Alarms

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Wine, Glasses

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• The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Liberty, World

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Flames, Desire

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• Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Too Short, Life's Too Short

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• Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search.  Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned.  And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

  Dan Millman

  Dream, Confused, Reality

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can't sustain [anger].  You become bitter.  Nothing's going to change.  Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

  Sherman Alexie

  Orange Juice, Resentment, Martyrdom

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• I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.

  Clinton Portis

  Memories, Thinking, Denver

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Revenge, Knights

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• Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  Guy Finley

  Disappointment, Expectations, Despair

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• It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming Evil, Legacy, Tasks

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• Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

  Marian Keyes

  Creative, Want

  Marian Keyes (2008). “This Charming Man”, ePenguin

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• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Struggle, Procrastination

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.

  Dave Matthews

  Morning, Jobs, Father

  "What Does Dave Matthews Eat for Breakfast?". Interview with Jessica Colley, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Bad times can make you bitter or better.

  John Wooden

  Bad Times

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• It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Believe, Needs, World

  Margaret Mitchell (1967). “Gone With The Wind”

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• The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Things In Life, Evil

  "Love and Death". www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Let anyone speak hundreds of things against you, do not resent by giving a bitter reply.
  If you tolerate such things, you will certainly be happy.
  If anybody wants any money from you, and you are not inclined to give, do not give. But do not bark at him like a Dog.

  Sai Baba

  Dog, Giving, Want

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• According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Order, Hot

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• Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

  Vance Havner

  Needs, Revival, Disposition

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• Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Enemy, Nehemiah, Very True

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Last Sermons”, p.91, Moody Publishers

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• Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Doubt, Church

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• If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him.

  Brother Lawrence

  Sweet, Hands, Indifference

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.38, Booklassic

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