Disappointment Quotes - page 10

From 1931 to 1935, I was an undergraduate at Cambridge in my father's old college, Gonville and Caius, which was particularly strong in medicine and the law. However, after two years of law I switched to economics, much to my father's disappointment. At that time the world was in the depth of the great depression and my motive for wanting to change subject was the belief, bred of youthful ignorance and optimism, that if only economics were better understood, the world would be a better place. (Richard Stone)
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can't change. View quote
Simon Van Booy
Get used to disappointment. View quote
William Goldman
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails. View quote
Francine Rivers
Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment. View quote
Arielle Ford
I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing. View quote
Barbara Delinsky
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father. View quote
Barbara Demick
She had expected to encounter death as a kind of existential depth and had been disappointed. But maybe there was a deeper truth there. Maybe profundity actually is a mode of disappointment. The rhythm of the climax-joy and despair, sex and pain-is of course the currency of life. Death can only ever be a sort of anticlimactic belatedness. View quote
Adam Roberts
Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. View quote
Brad Meltzer
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering. View quote
Daniel J. Siegel
i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can't be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment. (David Levithan)
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” "That's only three.” Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice. View quote
Jess Walter
Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. View quote
John Barrow
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. View quote
Jude Morgan
Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment. View quote
Emmet Fox
Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void. View quote
Emily Giffin
Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive. View quote
Emily Giffin
Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very. View quote
Loretta Young
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. View quote
Joyce Meyer
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. (Michael Fox)
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. View quote
Marsha Sinetar
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. View quote
Martin Freeman
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment. View quote
Martin Freeman
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. View quote
Martin Freeman