Disappointments Quotes

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Patience, Real, Blessings

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Greatest, After

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.
Michael Landon

Life, Lead, Giant

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
Mitt Romney

Destiny, Vote, Last

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
Colin Powell

Great, Words, Problem

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Reality, Give, Name

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Friedrich Schiller

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Full, Naive, Cynicism

A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
Gary Neville

Life, Strong, Mistakes

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
Blanka Vlasic

Future, Person, Sometimes

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Blessings

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.
Rashida Jones

Life, Hard, Through

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
Loretta Young

Mistakes, Making, Inevitable

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
Shania Twain

Life, Emotional, Deep

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton

Life, Great, Human

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.
Lee Majors

Made, Either, Along

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Fred G. Gosman

Future, Children, Shelter

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
Josh McDowell

Matter, Temporary, Troubles

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
Anne Lamott

Life, End, Sense

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
Maggie Kuhn

Age, Strength, Old

It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger

Women, Typical, Etc

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

Move, Tried, Fast

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
Fred G. Gosman

Love, Parenting, Focus

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
Nicholas Hoult

Rejection, Build

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
John H. Johnson

Times, Worthwhile

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.
Lee Westwood

Good, Leaving, Problems

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
Anne Perry

Time, Path, Wrong

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.
Hugh Grant

Single, Since, Longer

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
Boris Yeltsin

Time, Great, Powerful

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
Ricky Schroder

Dreams, Mistakes, Focus

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