Disappointment Quotes - Page 21

• Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.

  John Ortberg

  Pain, Mean, Responsibility

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.

  Robin Sharma

  Past, Thinking, Creating

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• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Drawing, Progress

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Stress, Team, Thinking

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• It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

  Isaac Barrow

  Character, Duplicity, Practice

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• Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Practice, Transformation

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2005). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.224, Rodale

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• For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough!

  Astrud Gilberto

  Music, Hurt, Sarcasm

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• I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Motivational, Athlete, Careers

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• The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Laughing, Biggest Fear

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

  Brody Dalle

  Hate, Rage

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• The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

  "How Children Succeed". Book by Paul Tough, January 25, 2013.

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• I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Pain, Stupid, Desire

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Mistake

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• Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Unique, Opportunity, Drawing

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• I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

  Bill Bailey

  Chocolate, Despair, Littles

  "Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.

  Roy Keane

  Doom And Gloom, Worry, Clubs

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• Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Thinking, Bigs

  Twitter post from May 31, 2014

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• There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

  Anton Chekhov

  Path, Stills, Whole

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Ambition, Life Is, Achieve

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• Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

  Bolesław Prus

  Thinking, Doe, Surprise

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• I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

  Lee Majors

  Roles, Made, Majors

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• The long series of disappointments you accumulate in a lifetime can stop you from moving forward into all the goodness God has planned for you – and that means they’ll be stopping not only you, but also all those God has destined you to reach along your life journey.

  Christine Caine

  Moving Forward, Mean, Journey

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 14, 2015

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• When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.

  Christine Caine

  Believe, Silence, Storm

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 25, 2015

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• No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Long, Expectations, Soul

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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• The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

  Mark Buchanan

  Thinking, Reflection, Discovery

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