Disappointed Quotes - Page 20

• We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Optimism, Effort, Battle

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.452, e-artnow

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• While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

  Roland Barthes

  Strong, Struggle, Joy

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Fear, Past, Lessons

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• Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perfection, Meditation, Joy

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• Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Yield, Expectations

  Ellen G. White (1994*). “Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4”, Review and Herald Pub Assoc

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• I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Thinking, Events

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• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Sports, Coaching

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• The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambition, Shining, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.233

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• If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Successful, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 30, 2012

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• My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Couple, Dad, Real

  "5 Questions with Sherri Shepherd on Love and Happiness". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

  Robert Smith

  Jobs, Thinking, Who I Am

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• When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

  Bernard Baily

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

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• It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

  Maria Sharapova

  Revenge, Years, Lasts

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• ...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.

  J. L. Mackie

  Philosophical, Issues, Leaving

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• I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my wrinkles. I thought, you mean this is what it's gonna be about now? I'm not going to be permitted to be human?

  Robert Redford

  Success, Blessed, Mean

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• If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Christ, Intention

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• In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Moving, America, Progress

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

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• I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

  Lisa See

  Hurt, Thinking, Betrayed

  "Lisa See: Best-selling Author Talks Female Friendships, Adapting Her Novel To Film". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

  Steve Perryman

  Football, Spurs

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• It's not because I like him. I'm just disappointed. Disappointed in love.

  Kim A-joong

  Drama, Disappointed Love, I Like Him

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• When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

  Donald Kennedy

  Work, People, Perfection

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Hope, Real, Light

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