Disappointment Quotes:

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Disappointment, Women, Love Is

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.

- Adam Hamilton

source: Adam Hamilton (2011). “The Journey, Expanded Large Print Edition: Walking the Road to Bethlehem”, p.73, Abingdon Press

topic: Pain, Disappointment, Believe

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Disappointment, Believe, Confusion, Obeying

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

- Al Alvarez

topic: Depression, Disappointment, Relaxation, Sporadic

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

- Al Pacino

topic: Disappointment, Opportunity, Thinking

In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.

- Al-Ghazali

topic: Wisdom, Disappointment, Islamic, Marshes, Islamic Wisdom

I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.

- Albert Brooks

topic: Disappointment, Book, Home, Flying Cars

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Desire, Self Centered, Personal Desire

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

- Alberto Salazar

topic: Running, Disappointment, School

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Disappointment, Holiday

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

- Alexandra David-Neel

topic: Wise, Disappointment, Expectations

As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.

- Alexis Davis

topic: Disappointment, Mma, Fighter

I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.

- Alfred Wainwright

topic: Spiritual, Disappointment, Eye, Emerging

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

- Alice Thomas Ellis

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Idols, Told You So

Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."

- Alma P Burton

source: Alma P. Burton, Clea M. Burton (1966). “For They Shall Be Comforted”, p.30, Cedar Fort

topic: Disappointment, Grief, Son

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

- Alonzo Mourning

topic: Disappointment, Careers, Emptiness

He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

- Alyson Noel

topic: Disappointment, Doors, Track, Tiptoes

Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.

- Amanda Bynes

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mom, Disappointment, Way

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Disappointment, Years, Three

predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Disappointment, Stage, Disillusion

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Disappointment, Opportunity, Grasping, Disappointment In Friends

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hope, Disappointment, Eternity, Dividing, Disappointment In Friends

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.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Disappointment, Attitude, Fear, Calvary

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Disappointment, Women, Party

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Disappointment, Women, Perspective

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Disappointment, Need Love, Carving

The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.

- Andreas Feininger

source: Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

topic: Disappointment, Eye, Differences

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

- Angie Stone

topic: Disappointment, Giving

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.

- Anita Desai

source: Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

topic: Motivational, Disappointment, Book

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.

- Ann Patchett

source: Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.27, Harper Collins

topic: Disappointment, Writing, Heart

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

- Ann Radcliffe

topic: Disappointment, Mind, Conviction

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted ...

- Ann Radcliffe

source: Ann Radcliffe (1820). “The romance of the forest, by the authoress of 'A Sicilian romance'.”, p.187

topic: Disappointment, Discovery, Mind, Perfidy

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

- Ann Radcliffe

source: Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

topic: Disappointment, Integrity, Luxury

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Disappointment, Ends, Coming To An End

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Disappointment, Littles, Might

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

- Anne Rice

topic: Children, Disappointment, Lying

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

- Anne Roiphe

topic: Family, Sex, Disappointment, Minefields

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Disappointment, Landscape, Landscape Photography, Photography And Film

Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Disappointment, Reality, Optimism

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

- Anthony Powell

source: Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press

topic: Children, Disappointment, Years, Step Children

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

- Anthony Swofford

source: Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hurt, Disappointment, People

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Art, Disappointment, Acting, Deep Disappointment

There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Disappointment, Path, Stills

At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

- Anzia Yezierska

topic: Education, Wall, Disappointment, Frigid, Underpaid

It is such a disappointment in American political reaction and actions. When some of our politicians are flying around the country in private airplanes all the time, using public services as their mode of private transportation, and then criticizing us who are in business.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Country, Disappointment, Airplane

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

- Arthur Helps

topic: Disappointment, Philosopher, Mets

He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Disappointment, Heart, Eye, Blackness

There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Disappointment, Errors, Elderly, World And Life

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Disappointment, Reality, Expectations

For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough!

- Astrud Gilberto

topic: Music, Hurt, Disappointment, Derogatory, Sociologists

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

- Athol Fugard

source: "Sir James Dyson: Design Is Everyday Problem Solving" by Beth Carter, www.wired.com. May 1, 2012.

topic: Disappointment, Writing, Thinking

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Birthday, Success, Disappointment, Funny Birthday

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Disappointment, Practice, Transformation

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards.

- Babe Paley

topic: Disappointment, Integrity, Humble, Iniquity, Uprightness

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

- Barbara Delinsky

source: Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.98, Anchor

topic: Disappointment, Fear, Father

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

- Barbara Johnson

topic: Disappointment, Loneliness, Flower, Dismay, Present Situation

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Disappointment, Pessimist, Optimist

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Self

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

- Bella Pollen

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Want

A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

- Ben Gibbard

source: "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

topic: Disappointment, Moving, People

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Disappointment, Envy, Age

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

- Ben Marcus

topic: Disappointment, Mystery, Feels

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Time, Disappointment, Succeed

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Art, Disappointment, Lying, Living A Lie, Greatest Man

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

- Bernard Baruch

source: In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

topic: Disappointment, Freedom, Political, Kept Promises, Breaking Promises

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Disappointment, Regret, Failure

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

- Bette Davis

topic: Disappointment, Success And Failure, Inherent

It is not easy to be the best. You must have the courage to bear pain, disappointment, and heartbreak. You must learn how to face danger and understand fear, yet not be afraid. You establish your goal, and no matter what deters you along the way, in your every waking moment you must say to yourself, "I could do it."

- Betty Skelton Erde

topic: Pain, Disappointment, Goal

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

- Betty Smith

source: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

topic: Children, Disappointment, Believe, People Disappoint

I'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

- Bill Bailey

topic: Disappointment, Surprise

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment ! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

- Bill Bailey

source: "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

topic: Disappointment, Chocolate, Despair

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

- Bill Willingham

topic: Disappointment, Destiny, Passive

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

- Billy Graham

topic: Disappointment, Cutting, Thinking, Closed Doors

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

- Blanka Vlasic

topic: Stay Strong, Disappointment, Stronger, Stronger Person

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

- Bobby Jones

topic: Disappointment, Golf, Appreciate, Appraise, Hope Of Success

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments

- Boris Yeltsin

topic: Powerful, Disappointment, Years

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

- Boyd K. Packer

source: Boyd K. Packer (1982). “That All May be Edified: Talks, Sermons & Commentary”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Disappointment, Philosophy, Stress, Instant Gratification

If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Depressing, Disappointment, Feelings

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Disappointment, Anxiety, Suffering

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

- Boyle Roche

topic: Disappointment, Nurse

Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low.

- Brad Meltzer

topic: Disappointment, Expectations, Lows

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

- Brad Warner

source: Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

topic: Disappointment, Reality, Brain, Adjustment, Discovering Things

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

- Brené Brown

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Disappointment, Hopefulness

If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

- Brené Brown

topic: Hurt, Disappointment, Moving

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

- Brené Brown

topic: Motivational, Meaningful, Disappointment, Benign, Meaningful Work

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Love, Jesus, Disappointment, Disheartened, Humanness Is

I think anyone would be disappointed with a .230- something season. Now I've dealt with disappointment and hopefully I can bounce back and learn from it.

- Brian Dopirak

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Would Be

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

- Brian Grazer

topic: Hurt, Disappointment, Eye

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Perseverance, Disappointment, Adversity, Belief In Yourself, Facing Adversity

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

- Brody Dalle

topic: Disappointment, Hate, Rage

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, People, Grumbling

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Marriage, Disappointment, People

Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.

- Bruce C. Hafen

topic: Disappointment, Wings, Promise

Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

- Bruce C. Hafen

topic: Jesus, Pain, Disappointment, Contamination, Growing Pains

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

- Bruno Bettelheim

topic: Love, Disappointment, Children, Love Our Children, Annoyance

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Disappointment, Father, People

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

- Bryce Courtenay

source: Bryce Courtenay (2010). “The Power Of One: Popular Penguins”, p.775, Penguin UK

topic: Determination, Disappointment, Tasks

I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice.

- Cameron Crowe

source: "Cameron Crowe apologises for casting Emma Stone as 'part-Asian' in Aloha" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2015.

topic: Disappointment, Heart, Apology, Heart Felt

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

- Candace Bushnell

source: FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 06, 2013

topic: Disappointment, Self, Work Ethic, Doubt And Fear

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

- Candace Bushnell

topic: Disappointment, Men, Matter

I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Couple, Disappointment, Character, Nina

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

- Carl Jung

topic: Beautiful, Disappointment, Hair, Gorgeous Women

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

- Carmelo Anthony

topic: Disappointment, Selfish, Reading

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

- Cate Blanchett

topic: Disappointment, Perfect, Expectations, Life Disappointment, Disappointment In Friends

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

- Catharine Beecher

source: Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

topic: Disappointment, Heart, Suffering, Extremity, Felicity

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

- Cathy Freeman

topic: Leadership, Powerful, Disappointment, Hunted

Our disappointment sits between us.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Disappointment

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Love, Powerful, Disappointment

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Disappointment, Winning, Expectations

We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.

- Charles Payne

topic: Disappointment, Cutting, Reality

With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'

- Charles S. Maier

topic: Disappointment, Reality, Hands, Captivated, Exhilaration

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

topic: Truth, Disappointment, Long

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Disappointment, Believe, Believe In God

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.

- Charles Stanley

topic: God, Disappointment, Choices, Bitter Disappointment

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Disappointment, Optimistic, Choices

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Disappointment, Choices, Discouragement

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Pain, Disappointment, Father, Suffering Pain, Heavenly Father

Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

- Chris Sarandon

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, People, Wrong Reasons, Bitter Disappointment

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

- Christian Finnegan

topic: Disappointment, Blame, External Forces

When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.

- Christine Caine

topic: Disappointment, Believe, Silence, Undaunted

There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.

- Christine Downing

source: Christine Downing (1988). “Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood”, Burns & Oates

topic: Disappointment, Sisterhood, Differences

When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

- Christine Kane

topic: Dream, Disappointment, People

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

- Christopher Hampton

topic: Art, Disappointment, Numbers, Mishaps, Inadequate

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

- Chuck Barris

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hurt, Disappointment, Creativity

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

- Clare Short

topic: Disappointment, Men, Constant

When I attended the University, I daydreamed about being a movie star. I would do my dressing room in Early American and give lovely presents to my make-up man and hairdresser for making me look so lovely, and so on. When I got my contract at 20th I was in seventh heaven, but I found out that a movie career is mostly hard work laced with disappointments.

- Coleen Gray

topic: Stars, Disappointment, Hard Work, Hairdresser, Seventh Heaven

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.

- Constance Spry

topic: Disappointment, War, Coffee, Days Gone By

My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today ...

- Corazon Aquino

topic: Country, Disappointment, Today, Coups

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

- Cordell Hull

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Disappointment, Sincere Appreciation, Sincere Gratitude

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

- Dan Millman

topic: Disappointment, Expectations, World

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.

- Dani Shapiro

topic: Disappointment, Careers, Order

Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.

- Daniel J. Siegel

source: Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam

topic: Letting Go, Disappointment, Grief

I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

- Dathan Ritzenhein

topic: Motivational, Disappointment, Athlete

We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.

- David Benatar

source: David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.29, Oxford University Press

topic: Children, Pain, Disappointment

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

- David Morrissey

topic: Disappointment, Rejection, Hazards, Occupational Hazards

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

- David Ogden Stiers

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

topic: Disappointment, Kids, Sound, Surround Sound

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

- David Rudisha

topic: Disappointment, Stronger, Sometimes, People Disappoint

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

- David Wain

topic: Summer, Disappointment, Years, Cables

Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

- David Whyte

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Self, Short Circuit, Bossy

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events that are beyond our control, and the betrayals we endure, from those we befriended and loved, can make us cynical and turn our hearts into flint – on which only the matches of anger and bitterness can be struck into flame. By their delight in being with us, the reliable sunniness of their disposition, the joy they bring to playtime, the curiosity with which they embrace each new experience, dogs can melt cynicism,and sweeten the bitter heart.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Dog, Disappointment, Betrayal

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Family, Disappointment, Home

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Sad, Disappointment, Loss, Life Disappointment

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

- Deborah Moggach

topic: Disappointment, Real, Trying

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Disappointment, Worst, Plans, Preparation And Planning, Prepare For The Worst

I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

- Denton Cooley

source: "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

topic: Disappointment, Achievement, Feelings, Lessons To Be Learned

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

- Denzel Washington

topic: Dream, Disappointment, Goal

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

- Derek Landy

topic: Disappointment, Plans, Invitations

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

- Diana Peterfreund

topic: Disappointment, Blood

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

- Donald Harington

topic: Disappointment, Loneliness, Writing

Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true

- Doreen Virtue

source: FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Jan 21, 2015

topic: Dream, Disappointment, Path, Afraid Of Failure

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

- Dorothy Koomson

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Long

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Disappointment, Expectations, Sorrow, Hopes And Expectations

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

topic: Religious, Disappointment, Drama

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Disappointment, Needs, May

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.

- Edith Grossman

source: Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press

topic: Disappointment, Athlete, Adventure, Warming Up, Bitter Disappointment

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment, Heart Ache

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Disappointment, Men, Disappointed, Disappointed Love, Life Disappointment

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

- Edward Hoagland

topic: Life, Disappointment, Loss, Obfuscation, Zest For Life

None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

topic: Jobs, Disappointment, Loss

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Disappointment, Shadow, Trials, Redeemer

Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

- El DeBarge

topic: Disappointment, Struggle, Writing

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

- Eleanor Brown

topic: Hurt, Disappointment

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

- Eleanor Catton

topic: Disappointment, Effort, Littles, Unified

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Disappointment, Real, Ethos, Containing

In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Disappointment, Passion, Ambition, Bitter Disappointment

I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Christian, Memories, Disappointment

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Strong Women, Disappointment, Struggle

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Disappointment, Reality, Space

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Disappointment, Maturity, Contradiction

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, People

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Love, Disappointment, Greatness, Eat Pray And Love, Eat Love Pray

I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

- Elizabeth Ray

topic: Disappointment, Ambition, People, Pageant, Beauty Pageant

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Disappointment, Self, Mind

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Disappointment, Knowing, Looks, Bright Side

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Couple, Disappointment, Fall, Sinkholes, Mania

You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

- Emilie Loring

topic: Disappointment, Heartache, Sorrow, Bitter Disappointment

To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

- Emily Blunt

topic: Disappointment, Thinking, Years

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

- Emily Post

topic: Disappointment, Demand, Guests, Annoyance

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

- Eric Alterman

source: Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

topic: Disappointment, Issues, Accomplishment

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

- Eric Bana

topic: Disappointment, Years, Giving, Five Year Plans

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Hope, Disappointment, Expectations, Life Disappointment, Disappointment In Friends

no expectations, no disappointments!

- Eric Jerome Dickey

topic: Disappointment, Expectations, High Expectations, Great Expectations

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Love, Pain, Disappointment, Safety And Security

Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.

- Erin Morgenstern

source: FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Nov 07, 2012

topic: Pain, Memories, Disappointment, Desolate, Lost Cause

Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.

- Eugene Kennedy

topic: Death, Disappointment, Mean

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

- Euripides

topic: Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment, Bitter Disappointment

You can't be disappointed unless you try something to be disappointed over.

- Evelyn Keyes

topic: Disappointment, Trying, Disappointed

Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

- Evelyn Waugh

topic: Love, Disappointment, Spring, Paving, Brideshead Revisited

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow...

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Disappointment, Adversity, Heartache, Pinnacle

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

- Famke Janssen

topic: Disappointment, People, Expectations, High Expectations

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Disappointment, Numbers, Doubt

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

- Frances Wright

topic: Courage, Disappointment, Ignorance, Decide Upon, Good Courage

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

- Francine Rivers

topic: Disappointment, Purpose, Lord

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

- Frank Luntz

topic: Pain, Disappointment, Regret

How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Dream, Disappointment, Fall

One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Disappointment, Errors, People

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

- Frederick Locker-Lampson

source: Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188

topic: Disappointment, Faces, Youth, Sped