Disappointed Quotes - Page 8

• Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Fire, Cities

  "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 6, 2012.

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• When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

  Sara Blakely

  Motivational, Brother, Children

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• The title says it all: 'Little House on a Small Planet.' With population,
  pollution and environmental pressures weighing heavily upon us, our planet
  grows smaller every day and the need for thoughtful, lower-impact housing becomes more urgent. This delightful book is full of inspiring ideas that will help you simplify your housing choices, make more environmentally responsible product and material choices and bring down the square footage of your next home. Or maybe you'll decide to take your current home and turn it into several. You won't be disappointed.

  Wanda Urbanska

  Book, Home, Thoughtful

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• Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

  Esther Perel

  Passion, People, Realist

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000.

  Bob Frankston

  Thinking, Risk, Patents

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• You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.

  Brian Tracy

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heaven

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• Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is with you, cares for you, and loves you. He is working all these things together for your good right at this very moment.

  Christine Caine

  God, Christian, Love You

  Christine Caine (2014). “Living Life Undaunted: 365 Readings and Reflections from Christine Caine”, Zondervan

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• "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

  Stephen King

  Hope, Simple, Night

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Growing Up, Women, Thinking

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• I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

  Maria Sharapova

  Hard

  "Federer and Sharapova unstoppable". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2005.

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• The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.

  Sally Schneider

  Thinking, Fundraising, People

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• Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Thrill, Want

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

  Jacque Fresco

  Life, Hurt, Disappointment

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• From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Ambition, Government, People

  "Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren".

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• For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Hope, Children, Men

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• Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Friendship, Loss, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  Abraham Clark

  Fate, Hands, Design

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• During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.

  Damon Knight

  Light, Storm, Lamps

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• But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Love You

  Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’, www.theatlantic.com. April 16, 1963.

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• Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, Effort, Shortcuts

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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, Being Disappointed

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from May 16, 2015

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• You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Jobs, Feel Better, Thinking

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• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

  David Thewlis

  Monday, London, Lasts

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

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• With Christ as the center of your life, you will never be disappointed.

  Pope Francis

  Christ

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