Dismayed Quotes

• 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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• 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 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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• Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Bible, Strong, Discouraged

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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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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• Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

  Christopher Columbus

  Journey, Numbers, Long

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.17

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• 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, Dismay

  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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• 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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• 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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• Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Swimming, May

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• Don’t take yourself too seriously.

  Trina

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

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

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• Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

  Teresa of Avila

  Daughter, Journey, Greatness

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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• Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

  M. Scott Peck

  Life, Appreciation, Thinking

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.

  Cindy Sherman

  Opposites, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Giving

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1939). “The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...”

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• Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful "who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

  Pope Pius X

  Crush, Religious, Powerful

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Popes and the Papacy" by Brandon Toropov, (p. 26), 2001.

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• At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Giving Up, Men, Islands

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1846). “The Poems of John G.C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70

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• Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

  Richard Bach

  Evil, Challenges, Darkness

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• Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.

  Stefan Zweig

  Real, Women, Heart

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Integrity, Issues, Climate

  "Coalition's climate policy 'bullshit': Turnbull". www.abc.net.au. December 7, 2009.

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• In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.

  John Ruskin

  Writing, Thinking, Hymns

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• And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .

  Dianne Feinstein

  Responsibility, Thinking, Issues

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• Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Pain, Grief

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• No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unseen, Opponents, Sides

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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