Disappointment Quotes - Page 4

• All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Weak, Enterprise

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• The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

  William Matthews

  Failure, Spirit, One Man

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• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Lying, Forever, Enemy

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Racing, Action

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• Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.

  Omar Suleiman

  God, Prayer, Islamic

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jan 25, 2014

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• Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Class, Personality

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hope, Ambition, Frustration

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Waldo & Magic, Inc.”, p.107, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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• Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

  Joel Osteen

  Hurt, Mistake, Accomplishment

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• There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

  Sarah Dessen

  World, Shifting, Disillusionment

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.134, Penguin

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• At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

  George Packer

  Fear, Heart, Wish

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• No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

  John Brown

  Spring, Heart, Journey

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• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Exaggeration Is, Sides

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

  John Irving

  Successful, People, Energy

  John Irving (2016). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.248, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable.

  George Eliot

  May, Vexation, Coincidence

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.127

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• But evil fortune has decreed, (The foe of mice as well as men) The royal mouse at last should bleed, Should fall ne'er to arise again.

  Michael Bruce

  Fall, Evil, Lasts

  Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.308

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• A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

  Jane Austen

  Successful, Promise, Littles

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.143, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Grief, Believe, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

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• The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Beautiful, Gay, Artist

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• Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sex, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Journey, Tasks

  "People Share Moon Landing Memories On YouTube Channel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 19, 2014.

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• Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

  Mary Douglas

  Hands, Expectations, Promise

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• There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

  Gayle Forman

  Differences, Pieces, Losing

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 07, 2014

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Sunset, Sacrifice

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• I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Way

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.68, Random House

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