Being Disappointed Quotes

• Don't raise your expectations too high. It's the surest way of being disappointed.

  Mary Louisa Molesworth

  Expectations, Way, Raises

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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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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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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  Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

  Emma Watson

  Beautiful, Self Esteem, Feelings

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2013

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• Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

  Marian Seldes

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Feel Better

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• Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.

  Jon Gordon

  Optimistic, Where You Are, Where You Are Going

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from May 16, 2015

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• Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.

  Noelle Scaggs

  Outcomes, Sometimes, Inevitable

  "Interview with Noelle Scaggs of Fitz and the Tantrums". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

  Tennessee Williams

  Discouraged, Menagerie, I Am Disappointed

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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• There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

  Jessica Simpson

  Disappointed

  "Jessica Simpson On 'Oprah': I’m Angry At John Mayer (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.

  Rose McGowan

  Mean, Bases, Stills

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.

  Simon Cowell

  Heart, Doctors, Blood

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

  Peter Weir

  Kids, Simple, Remember

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

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• Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books

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• As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.

  Craig Lancaster

  People, Decision, Risk

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• A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Knowing

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• I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Unhappiness, Achieve

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• If you're looking for Mr. Perfect, you‟re going to spend your whole life being disappointed, because he doesn‟t exist. You have to get the best deal you can, but there will always be problems.

  Linda Howard

  Love, Perfect, Problem

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

  Laura Marling

  Divine Feminine, Humanity, Perception

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

  Gregg Troy

  Sports, Inspiration, Winning

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

  Tamar Myers

  Optimistic, Fifty, Way

  Tamar Myers (2008). “As the World Churns”, p.82, NYLA

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