Disappointment Quotes
I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment
Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
