Quotes about disappoint
disappointment used
Get used to disappointment. William Goldman
disappointing
When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disappointing. Will Arnett
disappointment light benefits
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of life, conducive to some benefit, casts a grave but tranquil light over the prospect of even a toilsome and troubled life. Wilhelm von Humboldt
disappointment ambition wheels
We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual. Walter Savage Landor
disappointment failure spirit
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. William Matthews
disappointment mistake grateful
Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come. Sarah Ban Breathnach
disappointment lying fall
Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope. Samuel P. Huntington
disappointment grandmother years
I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her. Saina Nehwal
disappointment rain fall
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. Saint Basil
disappointment shame states
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.' Wole Soyinka
disappointment achievement matter
Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters. Winston Churchill
disappointment moving transition
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. William Throsby Bridges
disappointment ignorance simple
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people. W. E. B. Du Bois
disappointment greatness spirit
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
disappointment choices outcomes
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
disappointment moving goes-on
In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on Zig Ziglar
disappointment mistake past
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
disappointment proud lasts
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity. William Hazlitt
disappointment love-life people
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. Wendell Pierce
disappointment real reading
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. W. Somerset Maugham
disappointment heaven faults
Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good. William Penn
disappointment father fall
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.
disappointment heaven trials
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
disappointment grief believe
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
disappointment eye careers
There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.