Best Bitter Experience Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

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Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.”

Stronger Bitter I Have Learned Makes You Stronger Bitter Experience

Author:Mel Gibson

“I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.”

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Author:Mel Gibson

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

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Book:Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.”

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Author:Fannie Hurst

“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”

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Book:Let There Be Sculpture

Source: Let There Be Sculpture

“Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.”

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Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.”

People Knows Men Should Government Law Rich Vote Surprise Bitter Rip Rich Man Take Control Bitter Experience

Author:Andrew Greeley

“It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.”

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Author:Gordon Allport

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

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Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.”

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Author:Jan Peter Balkenende

“Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.”

Has Beens Found Results Economy Fields Taught Products Tests Bitter Advertising Occasions Consumers Inferiors Rare Occasion Bitter Experience

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”

Men Inspirational Has Beens Suffering Enjoy Bitter Teenager Teens Bitter Experience

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point?”

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Author:R. A. Salvatore

“We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.”

Looks Self Force Healing Lord Wind Blessed Self Confidence Ships Bitter Rely Folly Distress Compelled Harbors Bitter Experience

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.”

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works

“Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

Littles Hard Hard Work Promise Rewards Bitter Generosity I Have Learned Bitter Experience

Book:In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition

“You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.”

Life School Teach Errors Trials Bitter Sincere Trial And Error Life Teaches Bitter Experience

Author:George Cukor

“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.”

Reason Bitter Worth It Bitter Experience

Author:Neil Gaiman

“If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.”

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Author:Barbara Johnson