When Disappointed Quotes

#1. helps you to habitually put God into every picture, seasoning your feelings and thoughts, lifting you up when disappointed, and humbling you when successful.

Timothy J. Keller

#2. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?

Stacey Turis

#3. It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Jay Asher

#4. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing

J.M. Darhower

#5. When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

Natalie Cole

#6. I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

Jason Segel

#7. When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Daniel Clowes

#8. As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn't see my face. My mum was very disappointed.

Sheridan Smith

#9. It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture - the importance of putting me first

Rick Riordan

#10. I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a lot for voiceover stuff. I actually don't book a lot of it, and I love doing it so I get disappointed because I want to do more voice stuff.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#11. When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

Alain Resnais

#12. Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

Alain De Botton

#13. My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.

Simon Cowell

#14. In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

Mickey Mantle

#15. When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

Robin Hobb

#16. Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist ... First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

Ben Mitchell

#17. Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#18. Big Jim - Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police.

Stephen King

#19. When you've already been disappointed by the one person you're supposed to trust most in your life, you're not exactly keen on giving people any kind of ammunition over you.

Elle Kennedy

#20. Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

Derek Blasberg

#21. I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.

Zoe Kazan

#22. When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#24. I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Peter Weir

#25. When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

Jimmy Fallon

#26. When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

Carine Roitfeld

#27. And when we die,
Will we be that disappointed or sad?
If Heaven doesn't exist,
What will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had.

Neil Hannon

#28. The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

David Brooks

#29. I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Tucker Carlson

#30. Be thankful for the simple things and God's love and you will never be disappointed when life gets hard.

Phil Mitchell

#31. This is my favorite part of the hunting. Getting to know them . Hearing their legends. I want them to be as large in my mind as they can possibly be, and when I see them I don't want to be disappointed.

Kendare Blake

#32. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#33. Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

Kenneth Rexroth

#34. I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.

Gwen Stefani

#35. Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I

Donald Murray

#36. L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts.

Tsugumi Ohba

#37. I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

Moby

#38. I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Isabella Rossellini

#39. All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful ...

Sogyal Rinpoche

#40. He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling through the nose, exhaling with a little puff through the mouth. He was also disappointed when she woke up.

Rick Riordan

#41. Richard took one look and said, 'Ali, you are too young to work in the States.' He then drew a line on the wall. 'When you are that tall we will send you,' he said. Even today I would not reach that line. I was disappointed, of course. I

Ali Al-Naimi

#42. The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don't we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.

Anna Funder

#43. The human voice often shatters the beauty of the most tender passions; and when we left Simla next day, and Maureen and Sunil used all the stock cliches to express their love, I was a little disappointed. But the poetry of life was in their bodies, not in their tongues.

Ruskin Bond

#44. Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

Sherry Argov

#45. I have described, in the second chapter, the gait and appearance of a dog when cheerful, and the marked antithesis presented by the same animal when dejected and disappointed, with his head, ears, body, tail, and chops drooping, and eyes dull.

Charles Darwin

#46. For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

Plautus

#47. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.

Jimmy Fallon

#48. Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.

Charles Yu

#49. I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself.

John Schlesinger

#50. When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.

Tommy Lasorda

#51. Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

Linford Christie

#52. I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.

Bernhard Schlink

#53. If you never asked, you were never disappointed.
If you didn't rely on someone, they could never let you down.
If you never admitted how desperately you wanted something, it didn't hurt so much when it was taken away.

Virginia Kantra

#54. When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line ... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

Robert Gober

#55. I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed ... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.

Raymond Depardon

#56. All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing

Mary Oliver

#57. She was referring to the Buddhist idea that, without desires, we cannot be disappointed and thus unhappy when those desires go unfulfilled.

Theresa Lorella

#58. I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

Ron Perlman

#59. You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.

Niklas Zennstrom

#60. I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

Johnny Depp

#61. It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.

Toby Stephens

#62. By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. She stared at her fingernails for about twenty minutes for lack of something better to do.

Jason Medina

#63. When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

Anne Heche

#64. I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Haruki Murakami

#65. You know it's when like you parents said "I'm not mad at you, just disappointed" You know that hurts so much more.

Stephen "Steve-O" Glover

#66. When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some point she stops asking for what she wants. She begins to expect nothing, so as not to be disappointed when that exactly what she gets. But, it turns out, I do have wants.

Laura Fitzgerald

#67. It's a sad day when you have to be disappointed in a fan.

Tyler Hoechlin

#68. Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw that every one of them signed except for her. I was disappointed but I wasn't surprised.

We were too much of everything to be summed up in a few sentences. -Sean Foster

Rainbowbrook

#69. My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

George Clooney

#70. Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

Elizabeth McCracken

#71. It was a hairline crack, one might never have noticed, except for the fact it grew wider and wider, until there was a canyon between them. A child's job, ostensibly, was to grow up. So why, when it happened, did a parent feel so disappointed?

Jodi Picoult

#72. Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.

Allison Janney

#73. I felt even disappointed when he resumed the thread of his narrative.

Marcel Proust

#74. She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention when there is nothing to divert the mind; and how difficult it was for women to avoid growing romantic, who have no active duties or pursuits.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#75. I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

Anton Du Beke

#76. When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

Christine Kane

#77. Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#78. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

Mary Browne

#79. Fortinbras Bartleby, ten years old when he had died (of consumption, he had told Bod, who had mistakenly believed for several years that Fortinbras had been eaten by lions or bears, and was extremely disappointed to learn it was merely a disease), now apologized to Bod.

Neil Gaiman

#80. There was a time when I was really going to give up acting
right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

Angelina Jolie

#81. I just think I'm not the best person to demonstrate all the goodness humanity has to offer. I don't want you to be too disappointed when you realize that.

Marissa Meyer

#82. Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond.

L.M. Montgomery

#83. When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

Woody Allen

#84. Greedy is the one who is disappointed when he finds silver in gold mine!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.

Busy Philipps

#86. When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

Olivier Theyskens

#87. When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

Christopher Poole

#88. Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.

Samuel P. Huntington

#89. I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.

Gary Johnson

#90. I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and when you are a pleaser hellbent on being easy, fun, and flexible.

Brene Brown

#91. We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

#92. I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.

Les Miles

#93. If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.

Alison Brie

#94. When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives.

Eric Ludy

#95. Here was long period on my life when I was very disappointed by the fact I wasn't gay. Because I grew up going to gay clubs, living in New York and LA, both very gay cities.

Moby

#96. The offspring of two bookish parents, I made up my mind as a boy that I would be as unlike them as I could. I was determined not, as an adult, to look up from a book with that confused, abstracted, disappointed expression that my parents shared when jolted out of book life into real life.

Richard Russo

#97. I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

Jeff Bridges

#98. 'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.

Russ Tamblyn

#99. Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

Jennifer Lopez

#100. If at my funeral they're talking about my boxing stories, I'd be disappointed because this is just a springboard for when I'm finished. It's just a game. It's pretty silly when you think about it: two grown men punching each other in the face and taking it seriously.

Mark De Mori