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.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Satire is focused bitterness.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.