Disappoint Quotes

• I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

  Queen Latifah

  Self Esteem, Trying, Helping

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

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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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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  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

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• People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

  Walt Disney

  Disappointment, People, Looks

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• Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Pleasure, Possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Disappointment, Heartache, Giving

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• I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

  Sidney Hook

  Teacher, Fate, Hook

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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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• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

  Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

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• It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

  Susan Hampshire

  Inspirational, Lonely, Teacher

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• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Character, People, Waiting

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• Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Betrayal, Character, Actors

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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Self Esteem

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Disappointment, Track, Steps

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.56

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• Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

  Laurence Overmire

  Life, Disappointment, Acceptance

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• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Disappointment, Disappointed Love, Greater

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• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Disappointment, Salt, Disappointment Love

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.116

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• Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Disappointment, Landscape

  Ansel Adams (1965). “Basic Photo: Natural-light photography”

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• Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.184, McSweeney's

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• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  Judd Nelson

  Growing Up, Disappointment, Real

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

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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