Disappointment Quotes - page 15

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. (Oscar Wilde)
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. View quote
Bill Bryson
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. View quote
Bill Bryson
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. View quote
Napoleon Hill
You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be the shrew with the curlers and the rolling pin. So you swallow your disappointment and say okay. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
No one thinks he will escape death, so there is no disappointment and, as long as we know neither the when nor the how, the mere fact that we shall one day have to go does not much affect us; we do not care, even though we know vaguely that we have not long to live. The serious trouble begins when death becomes definite in time and shape. It is in precise fore-knowledge, rather than in sin, that the sting of death is to be found; and such fore-knowledge is generally withheld; though, strangely enough, many would have it if they could. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. View quote
Maurice Sendak
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. View quote
Maurice Sendak
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment. View quote
Bill Hybels
Experience taught him that the future was uncertain and one could prepare for it only by learning indifference to disappointment and loss. (Sean Russell)
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment. View quote
Isaac Asimov
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. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment. View quote
Publilius Syrus
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. View quote
William Osler
The disappointment of losing is huge. View quote
Jack Youngblood
A child . . . must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks. View quote
Helen Keller
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy. View quote
Michael Phelps
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. View quote
Al Pacino
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. View quote
Rosa Parks
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. (Mel Gibson)
Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment. View quote
Arthur Golden
We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. View quote
Peggy Noonan
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh