Top 1200 Life Disappointment Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Get used to disappointment.

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.

It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

The disappointment of losing is huge.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

The only thing you are guaranteed in football is disappointment.

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

There will always be a sense of things you want to achieve, where you want to be, a sense of disappointment, a few regrets here and there. Those are always going to linger. How you cope with them and how you move on is what your life is about.

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.

Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

You've got to laugh in the face of disappointment.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

You have to do disappointment twice.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

You must learn to discipline your disappointment.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.