Disappointment Quotes - Page 18

• My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Mother, Giving

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• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  William Arthur Ward

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivation

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

  David Halberstam

  Baseball, Religious, Encouragement

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• Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

  Luci Shaw

  Spiritual, Stress, Struggle

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• 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

  Integrity, Humble, People

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• Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.

  Yogi Berra

  Running, Work Out, Trying

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• Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Loss

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• Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Expectations, Goal

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting!

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Hurt

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• Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Morning

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• As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our goal is to try to win, when our focus is on preparation and sacrifice and effort instead of on numbers on a scoreboard then we will never lose.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teacher, Wrestling, Sacrifice

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• Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life. Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money. Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.

  Robert G. Allen

  Life, Money, Decision

  Robert G. Allen (2004). “Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Wisdom, Islamic, Frustration

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• 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

  Leadership, Powerful, Adversity

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• ...try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Monday, Trying, Today

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• You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Pay The Price, Rejection

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• Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Uplifting, Pain, Evil

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• With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Righteous Living, Choices, Tragedy

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• 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

  Inspirational, Perfection, People

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

  Charles Stanley

  Choices, Discouragement, Discouraging

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• Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

  Charles Stanley

  Choices, Discouraged, Discouragement

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

  Dean Koontz

  Family, Home, Defense

  Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman (2007). “Frankenstein: City of Night: A Novel”, p.177, Bantam

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• Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power not only to endure, but also to overcome hardships, disappointments, trials, and struggles of daily living. Through diligently striving to live the law of God and with faith in Him, we will not be diverted from our eternal course.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Fear, Struggle, Law

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• 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

  Inspirational, Self, Voice

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

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• But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Sadness

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