Disappointment Quotes
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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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Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.
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To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.
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With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
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The long series of disappointments you accumulate in a lifetime can stop you from moving forward into all the goodness God has planned for you – and that means they’ll be stopping not only you, but also all those God has destined you to reach along your life journey.
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But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
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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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I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.
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Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.
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Man United, for all the doom and gloom, they're still the best club on the planet, they've got the best supporters and the best manager... United will always be United. To me, they are still the best and whatever disappointments they're having at the moment, don't worry, they'll bounce back. They always do.
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Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.
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The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
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Disappointment and hurt is an opportunity to be transparent, but don’t be pitiful—and there is a difference.
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Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
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We were twelve years old, but we walked along the hot streets of the neighborhood, amid the dust and flies that the occasional old trucks stirred up as they passed, like two old ladies taking the measure of lives of disappointment, clinging tightly to each other. No one understood us, only we two—I thought—understood one another.
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When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.
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Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
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I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.
