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Quotes about Disappointment

I missed experiencing it after all efforts.But I'm postponing my disappointment.The next time I get a chance, and I find that it wasn't that good and hardly useful, I'll see that it wasn't worth it.And if it turns out to be great , why would I want to remember that disappointment then?

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Just because you're in love with someone doesn't mean you have any business being in a relationship with them.

Peg Papanek
Source: Friend of a friend
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed than to not know and always wonder...

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This is how the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper.

Thomas Stearns Eliot : British-American poet & critic
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
 
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Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Laurence Overmire
Source: Poet, Playwright, Actor, Educator, Genealogist
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are
all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,
human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we
make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Source: Mansfield Park
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I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."

Jim Harrison
 
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills (1929 - )
 
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Stephen R. Covey : American author, trainer, motivator
Stephen Covey (1932 - )
 
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Les Brown : 21st Century Motivational Speaker
Les Brown
 
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Punctuality is disappointing if no one is there to appreciate it.

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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930 - )
Source: Passion
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
 
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Robert Burns : Scottish national poet
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
 
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Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again. Please learn that as you wrestle with a challenge and feel sadness because of it, you can simultaneously have peace and rejoicing. Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.

Richard G. Scott (1924 - )
Source: Ensign, November 1995, © by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.Used by permission.
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Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. Without character, all effort to attain dignity is superficial, and results are sure to be disappointing.

R. C. Samsel
 
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Disappointment requires adequate planning.

R. Bandler
 
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Oliver Goldsmith : British poet, playwright, novelist & man of letters
Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774)
Source: She Stoops to Conquer
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Yet, seeing this ingratitude of those who are without perspective should not cause us to make reflexive rejoinders to unbelievers. Rather, we, for our part, ought to contemplate how truly deep God's commitment to free agency must be, how truly deep (and unpossessive) his love for his children must be to allow us to err, to fail, to learn, and to grow. And how wonderful is his refusal to impose, by his power, a faith that otherwise seems to come so slowly and to so few when men are left free. Sensing, even on such a small scale, these divine commitments ought to help us to reflect them in our lives. If we are tempted to unwise responses because of our small-scale frustrations with those who are ungrateful, with those who misuse their gifts, lo, how much greater the sense of disappointment at the divine level is. And yet his commitment to free agency remains intact, and his love, justice, and mercy continue even for those who defy their Father.

Neal A. Maxwell : American religious leader
Neal Maxwell (1926 - )
Source: For The Power Is In Them, pg. 28-29, © by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
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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 : American writer of "Think and Grow Rich"
Napoleon Hill
Source: You Can Work Your Own Miracles
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

Mel Brooks (1926 - )
 
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I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Martin Luther King, Jr. : American civil rights leader, clergyman, youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)
Source: "Letter from Birmingham Jail," in Why We Can't Wait, 1963.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr. : American civil rights leader, clergyman, youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 1964
Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)
 
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Source: Within a Budding Grove
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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 (1818 - 1893)
Source: Speech, "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women," 1855; in History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Mathilda Gage, 1881.
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The term ideal, herein is not used in the sense of an abstract, unattainable perfection; but rather it means a worthy goal that has promise of attainment through appropriate efforts. The gap between where you are and where you desire to be creates a mental and emotional conflict, "a holy discontent" - often called stress in today's world. Normally the first response to stress is to mentally and emotionally run over the outward indications of the conflict - anger, fear, disappointment, resentment, embarrassment, or other such negative feelings. In doing this one's mind is trying to fill the gap between his expectation of what he desires and what actually exists.

Loyd J. Ericson
Source: Loyd J. Ericson, The Sower and the Divine Pattern of Progress, Boise, Idaho, 1998
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Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

LaVell Edwards : American head football coach of Brigham Young University
LaVell Edwards (1931 - )
Source: Interview, Friday, July 23, 1999
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Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

LaVell Edwards : American head football coach of Brigham Young University
LaVell Edwards (1931 - )
Source: “Prepare for a Mission,” Ensign, Nov. 1984, © by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Used by permission.
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Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989)
Source: Los Aangeles Times, 26 Feb 1978.
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