Disappointment Quotes - Page 20

• Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, New Year, Hurt

  Twitter post from Jan 1, 2013

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• Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Doors, Happened

  Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Cancer

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• Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

  Tony Robbins

  Frustration, Emotion

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• If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Love You, Heart, Ifs

  Song: I'm With Whateva, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter, 2005

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• One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Girl, Religious, Horse

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• The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.

  Jamie McGuire

  Fall, Snow, Window

  Jamie McGuire (2012). “Beautiful Disaster”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

  Bill Willingham

  Destiny, Passive, Left

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• I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

  Banksy

  Crush, Couple, Kids

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• My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.

  Jens Lehmann

  Thinking, Insulting, Sticks

  "Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Taking the lead, that was the hard part. To concede after that was a massive disappointment - not good enough.

  Steven Gerrard

  Not Good Enough, Massive, Hard

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• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Crazy, Exercise, America

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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  There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

  Nick Saban

  Pain, Two, Discipline

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• I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year--develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Beautiful, Selfish, Real

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• The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

  Kingsley Amis

  Real, Loss, Brotherhood Of Man

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• Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

  Jon Jones

  Trust, Eye, Years

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• Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

  Richard Rohr

  Inspiring, Growth, Weakness

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

  Brad Warner

  Reality, Discovery, Brain

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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• How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Opportunity, Accomplishment

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• Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two quarters back. This pattern of disappointment and downward revision sets up the first, and the basic, challenge on the list of issues policymakers face in moving ahead: restoring growth, if that is possible.

  Stanley Fischer

  Moving, Years, Two

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• A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Confusion, Trying

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• Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

  Eckhart Tolle

  Needs, May, Realizing

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• Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

  Cordell Hull

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Regret

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Mean, Opportunity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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