Quotes About Disappointment

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Am încetat s? socializez de teama altor dezam?giri. În adolescen?? m? s?turasem s? urmez jocul altora, care, la un moment dat, te l?sau cu ochii în soare tocmai când aveai mai mult? nevoie de ei. Pe de alt? parte, nici s? g?se?ti oameni cu care s? por?i o conversa?ie cât de cât interesant? nu e u?or.

But, you know, when a man turns fifty, the weirdest and most disappointing thing happens. Your doctor loses interest in your testicles. And takes an overwhelming interest in your arsehole. It's the strangest thing. Because the chances of testicular cancer recede as you get older, and the chances of prostate cancer increase. Isn't life a fucking bowl of cherries?

Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a "vale of tears," and disappointment and heartache are as inevitable as clouds and shadows. Suffering is often the crucible in which our faith is tested. Those who successfully come through the "furnace of affliction" are the ones who emerge "like gold tried in the fire.

Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.

Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God's help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong? Is there a new path God wants me to explore?

While] disappointment and failure aren't identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God's best for our lives.

Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn't true. God's love for us never fails.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another—if we seek it.

The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion; it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy; it changed the midnight of fear to a sunrise of peace.

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose . . . a time to gain, and a time to lose" (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 NKJV). In times of loss there are lessons to be gained. Let's not miss the purposes of God even in times of sorrow and disappointment, for He is always with us on our journey.

We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

When disappointment or tragedy or suffering strikes, we have a decision to make: Will we turn away from God, or will we turn toward Him? Which road will we take? One road leads to doubt, anger, bitterness, fear, hopelessness, and despair. The other leads to hope, comfort, peace, strength, and joy.

That winter he was invited to give a reading at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), but not a single person showed up. He sat in the silent lecture hall while his two sponsors gazed at their watches; finally Yates suggested they adjourn to a bar. He didn't seem particularly surprised.

On Friday night, my dad wants to have a family activity. so we go ice-skating. It's me and my mom and my dad and my sister. It's like we're all together. It's like a beautiful dream. It's like the Disney Channel. Except that my dad and I hate each other. And my mom hates herself. And my sister is humiliated by the bunch of us. And I'm secretly waiting for the inevitable devastation of our entire civilization. But except for that.

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

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

The poor souls on the other side of the gate bars were merely frightened papa-sans and mama-sans clinging as fast to their children as they were to their hopes—families to whom the United States had made a promise. They'd bet their lives on that promise, and now they were going to lose. He was haunted by their pleading eyes. A

You got a lot of nerveTo say you are my friendWhen I was downYou just stood there grinning.

With Bledsoe accepting the disappointment as a consummate professional,

There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want; the other is getting it. George Bernard Shaw W