Disappointment Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Sight

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• Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Sadness, Events In Life, Challenges

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Depression, Relaxation, Layers

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• For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Home, Sea, Knowing

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 72, 1979.

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Mistake

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• 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.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Wings, Promise, Sorrow

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• There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Religious, Drama, Inspire

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• I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded

  Kristen Bell

  Giving, Advice, Important

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• Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, May, Today

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• We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

  Hannibal

  Good Man, Manners, Ability To Communicate

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• Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.

  Roger Federer

  Memorable, Kids, Winning

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• People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Running, Ideas, People

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• Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Causes, City Planning

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage

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• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Molecules, Study

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.1, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• You have to do disappointment twice.

  Jess Walter

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, World

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• Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Country, Loss, Work Out

  "Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford".

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• To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

  Helen Keller

  Wise, Brave, Victory

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.107, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Grief, Sorrow, Tears

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