Top 75 Disappointments Quotes

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments – just as I have been shaped by my successes.

But in the next world I shan’t be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

You can’t be in the industry without your share of heartbreaks, disappointments, and frustrations also. But as long as you’re able to stick to your guts and pick the roles you really want to do, the whole journey becomes worthwhile.

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

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.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I tried to walk away from standup, but it’s been my therapy – my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process.

This is one technique – going into my shell – that has helped me get over my disappointments.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

When you speak about teams who are experienced in the fight against relegation, the teams are used to handling this kind of situation. The teams who are not so experienced in this sort of thing have more difficulties to handle the pressure and the disappointments.

You know, one of the disappointments about – for me, personally about being released – is that I left thousands of people behind. Now that ‘For Life’ is here, and here for everyone, it gives me the ability to touch millions at the same time.

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.

I’ve run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I’ve won some big races and I’ve had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

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

You don’t want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, ‘You’re going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns – enjoy!’

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they’re on target.

I’ve lived in a man’s world all these wonderful years. I’ve been the only girl in the cockpit, in the conference room, wherever. I have learned how to kick in a lot of doors, and I have dealt with a lot of disappointments. But I will go into space one day, when God thinks it’s right or I make it right.

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.

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.

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’.

I do believe that my life, career has been fulfilling, I’ve had my share of disappointments too, but I have nothing to regret.

I’ve had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

You’re going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that’s around you. That’s what I found from being not only a player but also a coach.

I don’t believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn’t allow these things to break you.

It’s one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.

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

There are no disappointments, just challenges.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Choosing to remain vulnerable and sensitive despite disappointments or heartbreak helps me stay authentic to my life. It is the hardest part.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Wherever the career wasn’t going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, ‘Come on now, you’re still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.’

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.

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

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I’m actually excited by things. And if things don’t work out, you know, by the time you’ve hit your thirties, you’ve had your fair share of disappointments.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

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.

We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I’ve lost way more projects than I’ve booked. I’ve learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!

I don’t have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

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

I find that I’m extremely unattracted to anything that’s humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn’t ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

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.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

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.

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.

We’re all diminished and restricted by sweeping statements defining boy and girl, our expectations and disappointments with ourselves, the way we look, what we enjoy, and the choices we make.

Most sequels are generally disappointments.

Sometimes, as a coach, you have to somehow accept personal disappointments.

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.

The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.

There’s been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.

I’ve had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second ‘Lord of the Rings’ film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It’s daft.

There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I’ve had disappointments. But once you realise that things can’t always go your own way, you’re on the right track to being able to handle your own life.