Quotes About Disappointment

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.

It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

I can't do this because I can't...I can't be the man I want to be with you. And that means that this - this just becomes...another reminder of what I am not.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

Disappointment is simply a dream that doesnt want to become a reality.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.