Disappointment Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

  Simon Van Booy

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

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• No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

  Jude Morgan

  Mean, Expectations, Risk

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• Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

  Sei Shonagon

  Numbers, Firsts, Volume

  Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

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• Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

  Demi Lovato

  Expectations, Waiting, Happens

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong”, Hachette UK

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• When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Doubt, Sorrow

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• Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Greatness, Spirit, Strive

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Doe, Who We Are, States

  Stasi Eldredge (2014). “Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be”, p.23, David C Cook

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• Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

  Hortense Odlum

  Frustration, Interesting, Bitter

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• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  Widad Akrawi

  Regret, Sadness, Positivity

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• Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Heart, Pride

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• 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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• Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

  Stefan Zweig

  Writing, German Language, Groups

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