Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Emil Zatopek
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
Lech Walesa
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
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Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.
Jim Crace
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I truly believe that as a novelist, you cannot adequately describe the weather in England - the light, the dampness, the bitterness, the summer softness, and so on - without having experienced it.
Stephanie Laurens
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Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
Claudio Ranieri
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Satire is focused bitterness.
Leo Rosten
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I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.
David Remnick
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If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.
James Broughton
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
Gary Lineker
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.
Brad Paisley
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Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
Jane Goodall
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People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
David Furnish
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
Lucretius
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You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
Anthony Scaramucci
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One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.
Alana Stewart
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If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used.
Isabella Bird
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