Disappointment Quotes
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
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Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.
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It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
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Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
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For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
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How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.
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Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.
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I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.
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Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.
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The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.
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We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.
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You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.
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Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.
