Disappointment Quotes
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.
Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.
Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.
Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.