Top Disappointment Quotes Collection
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Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Disappointment is often the salt of life.Collection: Disappointment
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.Collection: Disappointment
However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.Collection: Disappointment
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.Collection: Disappointment
I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.Collection: Disappointment
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.Collection: Disappointment
Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.Collection: 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.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.Collection: Disappointment
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.Collection: Disappointment
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.Collection: Disappointment
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.Collection: Disappointment
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Plans are invitation to disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.Collection: Disappointment
Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.Collection: Disappointment
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.Collection: Disappointment
When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not willing to do that, at least we should notice that we are not willing. The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that we receive many times a day if we're alert. This gift is always present in anyone's life, that moment when 'It's not the way I want it!Collection: Disappointment
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.Collection: Disappointment
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.Collection: Disappointment
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.Collection: Disappointment
It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval or disappointment. His presence is not a sign of condemnation. It's actually an invitation. God is present with you, through His Holy Spirit, because He intends to uproot you from the tyranny of the familiar, shatter the monotonous life you've had. And take you on an adventure.Collection: Disappointment
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.Collection: Disappointment
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.Collection: Disappointment
It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.Collection: Disappointment
If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.Collection: Disappointment
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.Collection: Disappointment
You can only kill disappointment with a new try.Collection: 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 GodCollection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Disappointment
The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?Collection: Disappointment
Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.Collection: Disappointment
Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.Collection: Disappointment
The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people.Collection: Disappointment