Quotes About Disappointment In Yourself

#1. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Jane Hamilton

#2. Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.

Alessandra Torre

#3. 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

#4. It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#5. Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

John Edward Williams

#6. Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Anita Desai

#7. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Bryant McGill

#8. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.

Daniel Abraham

#9. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

Joyce Meyer

#10. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

Emily Blunt

#11. Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

J.K. Rowling

#12. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.

Candace Bushnell

#13. I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Dani Shapiro

#14. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Cathy Freeman

#15. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Shampa Sharma

#16. Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

Janeane Garofalo

#17. It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, even when they get you, it's always ... a disappointment.

Alethea Black

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

Calvin Coolidge

#19. 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

#20. Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Richard Rohr

#21. You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don't welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself.

Abigail Biddinger

#22. 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 not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#23. Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

John Ashbery

#24. maybe we need great disappointment to appreciate the good, and to better appreciate the meaning of God in our lives. I've come to realize that part of faith is opening yourself up to free will and knowing God will bring beauty, even in the midst of evil.

Taya Kyle

#25. 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

#26. In seasons of great pain, despair, and disappointment, He comes. Just when you're at the end of yourself, He comes. He appears at just the right moment - never early, but always at the right time. And it is at this moment that you realize it's not the end. It's the beginning!

Ross Parsley

#27. People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours?

Jenna Mullins

#28. I was thinking about how temporary disappointment can be if you don't linger on it too long and how there are beautiful things in the world if you look. It's up to you to find them for yourself.

Marc Maron

#29. Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself ... there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

Henry Cavill

#30. Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

Dwight L. Moody

#31. Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends ... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.

Morgan Matson

#32. People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

John Darnielle

#33. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.

Dana Marton

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#35. It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.

Charles Dickens

#36. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

Bette Davis

#37. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#38. I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

Larisa Oleynik

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

Silvia Hartmann

#40. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

#41. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.

Deborah Moggach

#42. Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.

Terry Virgo

#43. I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.

Ben Affleck

#44. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

Michael Chabon

#45. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.

Jay Carney

#46. Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People

Charles Dickens

#47. 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

#48. The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#49. A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good
a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#50. You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

Duane Michals

#51. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

#52. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...

Jennifer Estep

#53. Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.

El DeBarge

#54. I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.

Olivia Sudjic

#55. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.

Marty Rubin

#56. 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

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

Norm MacDonald

#58. Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.

Tony Robbins

#59. God sees hearts as we see faces.

George Herbert

#60. Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Paul Cellucci

#61. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#62. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.

Nancy Farmer