It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

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.

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

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

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

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

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

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.