Disappointing Quotes

• 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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• When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

  Reba McEntire

  People, Ambitious, Enthusiastic

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• When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Stuff, Culture

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• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Fame, Drag, Stills

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• The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Europe, Chickens, Fried Chicken

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• It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

  Richard Linklater

  Art, Entertainment, Film

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Disappointment, Despair, Tools

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 03, 2014

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• When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Want, Kind

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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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• If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Disappointment, Knows, Ifs

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing.

  Will Arnett

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• I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

  Phil Hartman

  Acting, Quitting, Decided

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• You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, People, Best Short

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• I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

  Emily Mortimer

  Effort, Tickets, Enormous

  "Woman on the verge" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Tony Greig

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

  Kevin Keegan

  Team, Eight, Two

  "Vernon's cool finish puts freeze on City" by Ian Whittell, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2005.

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Fields

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• The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Team, Moving

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

  Katie Couric

  Feels, Candy, Spills

  "The Dawn Patrol" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. August 8, 2005.

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• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  Illeana Douglas

  Years, Two, Done

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• It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Littles, Form, Masters

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• They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

  Louise Jameson

  Rude, Said, Humiliating

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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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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