Past Disappointments Quotes

#1. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.

John Flavel

#3. Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

Surya Das

#4. I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.

Keith Laumer

#5. Life is not about disappointments but lessons.

Evans Biya

#6. He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.

Kenneth Eade

#7. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.

Carlos Wallace

#9. Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Philip Yancey

#10. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments

Robin Wasserman

#11. The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.

Anne Tyler

#12. How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

Claudia Rankine

#13. To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.

Dallas Willard

#14. I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Zig Ziglar

#16. You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you.

V.C. Andrews

#17. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.

Ravi Zacharias

#18. I always have high expectations. I then cope with disappointments.

Dominique Perregaux

#19. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments

Munia Khan

#21. Satan seeks to build upon past failures, disappointments and weaknesses.

Sandie Freed

#22. 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 them in the East River.

Trygve Lie

#23. Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.

Forrest Curran

#24. I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

Geoffrey Household

#25. The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to
release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our
spirit.

Jack Kornfield

#26. 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 failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

Reince Priebus

#27. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Rafael Yglesias

#28. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Henry Ward Beecher

#29. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.

Silvia Hartmann

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

Laura Schlessinger

#31. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Baron De Montesquieu

#32. There is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.

Paul Auster

#33. Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.

Saul Bellow

#34. 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

#35. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Norm MacDonald

#36. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier

Abraham Lincoln

#37. If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

Loretta Young

#38. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

#39. Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Mason Cooley

#40. The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

#42. Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life
one that must be dealt with.

Joyce Meyer

#43. I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

Francine Mathews

#44. I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.

Carol Shields

#45. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#46. I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.

Karen Thompson Walker

#47. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.

Joshua Ferris

#48. Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Shane Warne

#50. Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

Torkom Saraydarian