Dismay Quotes

• Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Mistake, Failure, Humans

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.41, Sophia Institute Press

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• Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Good Friend, Games, Laughing

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• Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

  Teresa of Avila

  Patience, Abundance, Strive

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• Life is the game that must be played.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Life, Games, Arlington

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Betrayal, Shapes

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.90

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  Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Kindness, Journey

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Nov 28, 2013

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• Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

  William Cowper

  Positive, Men, Way

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.177

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• Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

  Rick Bass

  Dream, Ambition, Compromise

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• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

  Honore de Balzac

  Flower, Heart, Intuition

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.88, 谷月社

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• Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Dream, Heart, Son

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.524, Thomas Wolfe

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• Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Passion, Fire

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Children, Writing, Brain

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• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

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• We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

  Barbara Johnson

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Flower

  Barbara Johnson (2005). “Daily Splashes of Joy: 365 Gems to Sparkle Your Day”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

  America, Humanity, Events

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• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  John Sexton

  Photography, School, College

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• God rest you merry, gentlemen,
  Let nothing you dismay,
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born upon this day,
  To save us all from Satan's power
  When we were gone astray.
  O tidings of comfort and joy!
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born on Christmas Day.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Christmas, Jesus, Comfort And Joy

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• I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

  Ivanka Trump

  Mother, Appreciation, Father

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• I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

  Anne Bancroft

  Talking, People, Miracle

  "Actor Anne Bancroft dies at 73". www.abc.net.au. June 08, 2005.

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• Don’t take yourself too seriously.

  Trina

  Don't Take Life Too Seriously, When Life Is Hard, Dismayed

  "Style Card: Trina Turk". Highland Park Village Interview, styleandsocial.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Confidence, Fall, Achievement

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.

  William Christopher Handy

  Eye, Names, House

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• So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

  Jared Leto

  Kids, Trying, Directors

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• I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

  Jenna Bush

  Children, Cat, Parent

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