Disappointment Quotes - Page 3

• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Cynical

  "A Note on George Carlin about Steroids and Sports from a Practical Idealist" by Carol Smaldino, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2009.

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• When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Giving, Safe

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• To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility. You ask, 'How might we achieve these goals?' I answer, 'By getting a true perspective of who we really are!' We are sons and daughters of a living God in whose image we have been created. Think of that truth: 'Created in the image of God!' We cannot sincerely hold this conviction without experiencing a profound new sense of strength and power, even the strength to live the commandments of God, the power to resist the temptations of Satan.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Daughter, Humility, Son

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Agony

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• Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

  Patricia McCormick

  Expectations, Looks, Strategy

  Patricia McCormick (2011). “Cut”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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

  Perfect, Expectations, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God sees hearts as we see faces.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Faces

  George Herbert (2010). “Priest to the Temple, Or, the Country Parson His Character and Rule of Holy Life, with Selected Poems from the Temple”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mind, Changing Your Life, Permanent Change

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 18, 2016

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• Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Pride, Frustration, Reality

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.192, Penguin

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• When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.29, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• 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.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Tasks, Too Much

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Sad, Loss, Firsts

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

  Plautus

  Benefits, Bitter, Injury

  "Epidicus". Book by Plautus, V, 2, 52; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922),

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• If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Made

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• ... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Succeed, Excellent, Circumstances

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.185, Broadview Press

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• After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Pain, Heart, Empty

  Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (2004). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

  Walt Disney

  People, Looks, Supposed To Be

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questions she had ever asked in her life. By taking risks’ she said to Brida. ‘ By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in you search for Love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Long, Risk

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• 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

  Gratitude, Giving, Expectations

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