Disappointment Quotes - Page 11

• The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Littles, Reason Why, Rise Above

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, School, Emotional

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• If the mood is overly anxious, then anxiety must be reduced by lowering uncertainty. Very simply, uncertainty is reduced when people are told what's going on and what will happen to them. In the vacuum of no news, people imagine the worst. Since disappointment is much easier to handle than anxiety, then, good news or bad, honesty is honestly the best policy.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Honesty, People, Anxiety

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Expectations, Forever

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Soul, Holy, Aspiration

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Betrayal, Mistake

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Regret, Writing

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

  Jermain Defoe

  Religious, Blessing, Thinking

  "Prayer helped Defoe bounce back". Interview with "Football Focus", news.bbc.co.uk. December 22, 2006.

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• Yes, I'm married. But my wife understands that a good politician has to be appealing to the ladies. The fact that I haven't even gotten close to cheating on her is a disappointment to us
  both.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cheating, Wife, Facts

  "Aziz Ansari: 'I've always been a feminist. There wasn't a period when I was against women and then started dating one'" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2015.

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• Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.

  Steve Goodier

  People, Broken, Cynical

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• Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Christian, Wise

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• I truly feel sorry to all the fans of the games I have made. Ninja Gaiden 2, which will launch on the 3rd of June will be the last Ninja Gaiden I will create. I will also never be able to make Dead or Alive 5. I regret the circumstances that have forced me to leave Tecmo, where I had worked for so many years, and I regret the disappointment this will cause my fans. However, I can no longer continue to work with President Yoshimi Yasuda, a man who chooses not to honor promises even when he is able to do so. I truly hope that nothing like this happens again in the future.

  Tomonobu Itagaki

  Regret, Sorry, Years

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• I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.

  Stan Lee

  Play, World, Knows

  "Q+A: Stan Lee Is Finally a Superhero". Interview with Adam K. Raymond, www.esquire.com. July 3, 2012.

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• A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.

  Paula Wall

  Grief, Angel, Perfection

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• In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, World, Argument

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• I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

  Jack Canfield

  Self, People, Decision

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• Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

  Scott Adams

  Business, Humorous, Goal

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• It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

  Tito Colliander

  Self, Soul And Body, Suffering

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• 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?

  Thomas Watson

  Home, Heart, Night

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.78, Scripture Truth

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• The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Home

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.202, Harper Collins

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• As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

  Graham Greene

  Betrayal, Simple, Desire

  Graham Greene (2010). “May We Borrow Your Husband?”, p.25, Random House

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• Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

  John Mayer

  Love, Relationship, Names

  Song: Heartbreak Warfare, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Frustration, Thinking

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• Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

  Earl Wilson

  Golf, Broken, Arithmetic

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• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

  Francine Mathews

  Passion, Writing, Events

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