Quotes About Disappointment

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

I got sick of trying everything. I tried every single thing imaginable - diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property, and I still gained weight.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

It's so damned humiliating.