Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

Joseph Barbera

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Joseph Addison

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

Jonny Greenwood

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

John Cheever

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

LaVell Edwards

Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

LaVell Edwards

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

Lisa Kleypas

It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.

John Surtees

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

Marc Maron

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Marc Maron

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Thomas A. Edison

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Sharon Salzberg

People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

Shane Warne

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

Paulo Coelho

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

Martin Scorsese

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

Marlene Dietrich

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Maya Rudolph

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

Neale Donald Walsch

The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it looks like you can get, rather than what you can give, you have started off on the wrong foot entirely, and you could be heading for a big disappointment. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context within which you can express the fullness of who you are. And who you are is an experience you have before you enter relationship, not because you did.

Neale Donald Walsch

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Louisa May Alcott

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

John Flanagan

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

John F. Kennedy

We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

Peter McWilliams

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Peter Ackroyd

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Pete Wentz

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.

Paulo Coelho

Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Plutarch

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

Philip Yancey

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

Philip Yancey

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Pankaj Mishra

The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.