Disappointment Quotes - Page 2

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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• See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

  Jean Cocteau

  Deflation, Fortune, Plans

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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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

  Disappointed Love, Greater, Values

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• If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Gratitude, Blessing

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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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, Expectations, Soul

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

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• I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Michael Bolton

  Legacy, Here And Now, Settings

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• I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.

  William Howard Taft

  Party, President, Matter

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

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• Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

  John Surtees

  Home, Car, Firsts

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Fans, Matter

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, People, Age

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• The disappointment of losing is huge.

  Jack Youngblood

  Losing, Huge

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• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  David Wain

  Summer, Money, Years

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• The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

  Greg Ginn

  Views, Numbers, People

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• Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

  Paul Cellucci

  United States, Canada, States

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• Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

  Arthur Helps

  Philosopher, Mets, Disappointed

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Failure, Age

  Benjamin Disraeli (2010). “Vivian Grey”, p.618, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Grief, Joy

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• If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

  Michael Phelps

  People, Gold, Medal

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2004.

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• Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Years, Three, Hundred

  Ambrose Bierce (1973). “The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Ayer Company Pub

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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  Catharine Beecher

  Marriage, Heart, Suffering

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

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• God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross

  Ravi Zacharias

  God, Christian, Heart

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Feb 06, 2015

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• Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Taken, Pride

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 22, 2016

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• I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

  Ben Affleck

  Genius, Next, Lows

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• Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

  Dustin Milligan

  Sports, Crazy, Hockey

  "Dustin Milligan’s Shark Weeks". Interview with Katie Mendelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Memorable, Goodness

  George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

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