Disappointment Quotes - Page 26

• I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Character, Thinking

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• Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Virtue, Cowardly

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• In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

  Maya Angelou

  Winning, Order, Discipline

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.34, Bantam

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• Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.

  Harvey Mackay

  Business, War, Opportunity

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• Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Discipline, Rose, Train

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• Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

  Brian O'Driscoll

  Summer, Careers, Balance

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• My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.

  Amy Poehler

  Technology, Phones, Trying

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• If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

  Loretta Young

  Wise, Strong, Way

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• You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Hurt, Work

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• There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Choices, Pockets, Majority

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• Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

  Jeff Thomson

  Games, Reason Why, Bigs

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• I think anyone would be disappointed with a .230- something season. Now I've dealt with disappointment and hopefully I can bounce back and learn from it.

  Brian Dopirak

  Thinking, Would Be, Disappointed

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• Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

  John F. Carlson

  Reality, Soul, Suggestions

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Age, Would Be, Conceded

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

  Roy Wilkins

  Success, Sweet, Work

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• Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Meaningful, Grief

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Appreciation, Garden

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Perspective, Things Change

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• There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pain, Women, Things In Life

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• If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

  Gemma Chan

  Regret, Work Out, Forever

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• I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

  Chris Ware

  Uplifting, Depressing, Laughter

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• The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

  Joseph Addison

  Grief, Contentment, World

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.4

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• The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

  Kay Arthur

  Hurt, Jesus, Hard Times

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• But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
  And knows no disappointment.

  George Eliot

  Suffering, Faithfulness, Fidelity

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.444

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• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

  George Eliot

  Breakfast, Men And Women, Middlemarch

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.291

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