Disappointment Quotes - Page 26

• When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Focus, Our Lives

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• Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

  Billy Graham

  Cutting, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Sep 14, 2012

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• I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

  Vera Wang

  Successful, Mind, Able

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• No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.

  Josh McDowell

  Pain, Good Life, Life Changing

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Dark, People

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• It is a form of violence, to not see a being for who he or she really is. You think, "Oh, that's my son." But the lens, "my son," completely obliterates the multi- dimensions of that being. Maybe you only see your disappointments in that child, or you aspirations for that child, but that's not the child.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Son, Thinking

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• Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Defeat

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Military, War, October

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• The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Laughing, Biggest Fear

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

  Brody Dalle

  Hate, Rage

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• The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

  "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.

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• I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Pain, Stupid, Desire

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Mistake

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• Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Unique, Opportunity, Drawing

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• I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

  Bill Bailey

  Chocolate, Despair, Littles

  "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

  Roy Keane

  Doom And Gloom, Worry, Clubs

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• Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Thinking, Bigs

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

  Anton Chekhov

  Path, Stills, Whole

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ambition, Life Is, Achieve

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• Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

  Bolesław Prus

  Thinking, Doe, Surprise

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• I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

  Lee Majors

  Roles, Made, Majors

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• The long series of disappointments you accumulate in a lifetime can stop you from moving forward into all the goodness God has planned for you – and that means they’ll be stopping not only you, but also all those God has destined you to reach along your life journey.

  Christine Caine

  Moving Forward, Mean, Journey

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 14, 2015

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• When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.

  Christine Caine

  Believe, Silence, Storm

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 25, 2015

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• No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Long, Expectations, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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• The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

  Mark Buchanan

  Thinking, Reflection, Discovery

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