Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lancaster Spalding

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

Jim Rohn

You must learn to discipline your disappointment.

Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jim Rohn

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

Emily Post

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)

John Bunyan

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Joel Osteen

When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Joel Osteen

Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Joel Osteen

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

Joel Osteen

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

Joel Osteen

The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

Joel Osteen

When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.

Joel Osteen

I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

Joe Abercrombie

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Lloyd Alexander

By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

Scott Adams

Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

Rashida Jones

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

Thomas Jefferson

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Rick Perry

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

Tori Amos

I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.

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.

Robin Hobb

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

Robert Winston

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

Ryan Hall

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

Thomas Sowell

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.

Tim Matheson

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tim Matheson

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

Roger Federer

Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.