Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deborah Roberts

If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.

Eleanor Catton

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

Ben Jonson

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy will be at last bestowed by time.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Randy Pausch

If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

Douglas Adams

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

Chang-Rae Lee

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Lauren Myracle

God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.

Alfred North Whitehead

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

Aldous Huxley

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Albert Einstein

For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

Abigail Adams

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

A. C. Benson

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Cyril Connolly

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Dan Millman

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

Cornel West

When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

Cornel West

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

Conan O'Brien

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Robert Burns

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Julian Barnes

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

Kurt Vonnegut

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

David Einhorn

Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

David Ogden Stiers

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Dani Shapiro

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Daisaku Ikeda

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

Billy Graham

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

To the extent that those reports disappoint us, you may see rebounds.

Peter Fonda

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Right now I think you're in the indiscriminate phase of selling. There's more of (a feeling of) anticipation and paranoia about the possibility that some of the Dow stocks could disappoint even further.

Anne Lamott

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.