Quotes and Sayings About Disappointment
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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
-- Adam Hamilton -
A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
-- Al Alvarez -
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.
-- Al Pacino -
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patience only that acts like a light for a Muslim, that keeps him safe from wandering here and there, and saves him from the muddy marsh of disappointment, desperation and frustration.
-- Al-Ghazali -
I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.
-- Albert Brooks -
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
-- Albert Einstein -
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
-- Alberto Salazar -
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
-- Alexis Davis -
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.
-- Alfred Wainwright -
The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."
-- Alma P Burton -
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?
-- Alyson Noel -
Whatever is meant to be will be and you just have to trust that things happen for a reason. It's made handling disappointments that much easier because I just remember my mom's words and know that something better is meant to come my way.
-- Amanda Bynes -
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.
-- Amy Dickinson -
If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.
-- Amy Dickinson -
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
-- Anais Nin -
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an appealing subject and expects to get an appealing picture in return, may be headed for a disappointment.
-- Andreas Feininger -
I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.
-- Angie Stone