Disappointment Short Quotes

#1. Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Clare Short

#2. I frowned with disappointment. I'm not sure what I'd expected to see, although a short, dark-haired man standing beneath a floating neon arrow that read BAD GUY HERE would have been nice. A suspect and quick confession wouldn't have been amiss, either. This was a lot harder than in the movies.

Chloe Neill

#3. Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

Douglas Brinkley

#4. The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

Confucius

#5. We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Robert Breault

#6. I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

Phoebe Snow

#8. Don't burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#9. How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements ... and into dreams that we can make come true.

Fred Rogers

#10. My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson

#11. I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Travis Barker

#12. How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book's authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hanging on to the gates of Literature, rather than safely settled inside.

Alice Munro

#13. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Roy Wilkins

#14. In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame ...

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#15. The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

Marcus Samuelsson

#16. 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.

Samuel P. Huntington

#17. Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love.

Julia Cameron

#18. The inability to accept criticism is the short, well-traveled path to failure and disappointment.

Daniel Blackaby

#19. John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Rory Culkin

#20. If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

Adriana Lima

#21. Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye!

Jon Jones

#22. I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

Barack Obama

#23. Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Klemens Von Metternich