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• Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Disappointment, Loss

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.105

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• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Courage, Disappointment

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• Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

  David Rudisha

  Disappointment, Stronger, Sometimes

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• Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Depression, Disappointment, Enthusiasm

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

  Anne Lamott

  Best Friendship, Ifs

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• As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

  Maria Mitchell

  People, People Disappoint, Knows

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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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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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Disappointment

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hope, Disappointment, Expectations

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

  Rowan Williams

  People, Bishops, Used

  "A quiet man who said too much" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  Jackie Cooper

  Crazy, Too Much, Interviews

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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. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

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• People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

  Jason Statham

  People, Want, Chance

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Play, Knowing, Trying

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• I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Race

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• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Sorry, Blessed, Optimistic

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• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Believe, Europe

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• Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Remember You, Remembers You

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.32, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Everybody loves you when you're easy, so don't disappoint them.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sex, Love You, Easy

  Song: Black and White, Album: Surfacing

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• I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Plans, Wanted

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 5, 2002.

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• Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

  Graham Greene

  Looks, Deeper

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.

  Nicole Richie

  People, Parent, Looks

  "Interview with Lionel & Nicole Richie". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. May 31, 2009.

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