Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.

Samuel P. Huntington

Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.

Vera Wang

I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

Ryan Reynolds

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

Rodney Dangerfield

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

Sarah Dessen

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

Saint Basil

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Wole Soyinka

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'

William Throsby Bridges

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Ryan Seacrest

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Saint Augustine

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Winston Churchill

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Vladimir Putin

Indeed, that is exactly what they [the Arctic convoys] were. We know that the conditions in which they fought were appalling. Time and again they faced death in the name of a common victory and we remember that.

Winston Churchill

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Winston Churchill

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

William Moulton Marston

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Susan Grant

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is defeat which educates us.

Richard Robinson

It was difficult for the congressman to see people whose sole mission was to defame and defeat Mr. DeLay be successful at that.

Carlos Queiroz

It was a terrible defeat but, for us, it never happened.

Tarek Fatah

It's a big victory for separation of religion and state and a huge defeat for Islamic fundamentalism.