Disappointment Quotes - Page 6

• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  Ted Dekker

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Aug 04, 2015

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• In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

  Francois Fenelon

  Light, Essentials, Eternity

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Freedom, Keeping Promises, Political

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

  David Rudisha

  Stronger, Sometimes, People Disappoint

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• Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Easy, Hard

  "The Descendants". Book by Kaui Hart Hemmings, p. 236, 2008.

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• Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Art, Life Is, Illusion

  "Complete Works of Saki".

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Silence, Personality, Awkward

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

  Publilius Syrus

  Refusal, Disappointment In Friends

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• A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Happiness, Happy, Nice

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• The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Pleasure, Expecting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.116

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• Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

  Margaret of Valois

  Suffering, Credulity, Men

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

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• If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

  Masaru Emoto

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Masaru Emoto (2005). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Choices, Bitterness

  "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.

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• You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

  Mel Brooks

  Essence, Luck, Littles

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Tired, Giving

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Laughter

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• Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Powerful, Light

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

  William Osler

  Life, Strong, Failure

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• He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Moral, Cures

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.154

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• When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.

  Joel Osteen

  Life And Love, Loss, Happy Life

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• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, People, Feelings

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Father, People, Promise

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