Disappoint Quotes

• I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

  Queen Latifah

  Self Esteem, Trying, Helping

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

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

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, Disappointment, Expectations

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

  Nicole Richie

  People, Parent, Looks

  "Interview with Lionel & Nicole Richie". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. May 31, 2009.

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• If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

  Mary Karr

  Sibling, Mean, Kids

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• Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sex, Love You, Easy

  Song: Black and White, Album: Surfacing

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• Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

  Graham Greene

  Looks, Deeper

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Food, Cheesy, Cooking

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Plans, Wanted

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 5, 2002.

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• Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Remember You, Remembers You

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.32, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Disappointment, Mind, Disappointing

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.248

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• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Believe, Europe

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Optimistic

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Disappointment

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• As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

  Maria Mitchell

  People, People Disappoint, Knows

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Play, Knowing, Trying

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

  Jason Statham

  People, Want, Chance

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  Jackie Cooper

  Crazy, Too Much, Interviews

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• Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

  Rowan Williams

  People, Bishops, Used

  "A quiet man who said too much" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Race

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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, Disappointment, Giving

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