Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Jacobs

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

Kim Gordon

I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.

Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Deborah Moggach

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

Charlotte Bronte

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

Charlotte Bronte

My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Charles Stanley

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Al Pacino

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

David Morrissey

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

Dave Barry

The story you envision as you start out is always a great story; when the facts turn out to be different from, or more complex than, what you expected, your first reaction is always disappointment. That's when you must fight the urge to bend the story to your preconceived notions. First, it's dishonest. And second, in the end, the truth is always the best story.

David Rudisha

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Byron Katie

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

Carolina Kostner

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

Chogyam Trungpa

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Chetan Bhagat

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

Charles Lamb

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Louis C. K.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

Bill Bailey

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment ! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.

Bill Bailey

I'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

Bill Watterson

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Bill Watterson

Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

Biz Stone

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Charles Krauthammer

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Charles Krauthammer

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Bernard Baruch

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

Carlos Castaneda

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

Agnes Martin

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.