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.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Rob Ciarlo

He?s going to give you a good effort every time he goes out there.

Tracy Archuleta

We looked like a team that went outside for the first time. Our effort was that way and that's not acceptable.

Bruce Marthaller

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Avi Arad

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

Leo Tolstoy

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)

John Calvin

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Lord Byron

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Lord Byron

I learned to love despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.