Disappointments Quotes

332 Disappointments quotes by 267 unique authors

Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in… — Pope John Paul II
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 -… — Maya Rudolph
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… — Gaston Bachelard
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits… — Maggie Shipstead
Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we… — Susan Jacoby
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything… — Kay Arthur
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations… — Robert E. Wells
Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater. — Jan Hellriegel
Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and… — Torkom Saraydarian
The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived… — BrenÃ© Brown
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish. — Dan Millman
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that… — John Updike
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative… — Sigmund Freud
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have… — Reince Priebus
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw… — Trygve Lie
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott
I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some… — Alberto Salazar
Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass. — Jackson Browne

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