Quotes about disappoint
disappointment teaching loss
My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or an ex-president. I've tried to remember the teaching that we have to accommodate change we can't control in our lives, whether it's disappointment, sorrow, loss or failure, while simultaneously clinging to principles that never change. Jimmy Carter
disappointment reality expectations
Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality. John C. Maxwell
disappointment anticipation problem
We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering! James Macdonald
disappointment book reality
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. Joe Queenan
disappointment light essentials
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. Francois Fenelon
disappointment college parent
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them. George Clooney
disappointment war fighting
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. Geezer Butler
disappointment differences pieces
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself. Gayle Forman
disappointment passion reality
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering. Hermann Hesse
disappointment suffering vex
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
disappointment grief contentment
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter. Joseph Addison
disappointment thinking people
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. Jonny Greenwood
disappointment easy hard
Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment? Kaui Hart Hemmings
disappointment hands hopelessness
If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness. Khalil Gibran
disappointment lost
I'd lost count of the disappointments. Jonathan Safran Foer
disappointment real book
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
disappointment law benefits
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit. Napoleon Hill
disappointment heart bows
In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer. Lucy Stone
disappointment passion love-is
Love is talkative passion. Louis Armstrong
disappointment mistake reality
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. Loretta Young
disappointment sea apples
Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. Lord Byron
disappointment joy doubt
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. Mahatma Gandhi
disappointment block views
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. Fridtjof Nansen
disappointment jewels errors
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. Orson F. Whitney
disappointment knowing littles
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment. Ellen Glasgow
disappointment issues accomplishment
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. Eric Alterman
disappointment thinking wind
To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any. Emily Blunt
disappointment void recognizing
...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void... Emily Giffin
disappointment passion names
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
disappointment hands voice
Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!
disappointment hands darkness
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. Henri Nouwen
disappointment track car
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin. Henry Ward Beecher
disappointment giving touching
Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.