I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
Jermain Defoe
BlessingDisappointmentThinkPerson
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.
Robert Rauschenberg
TimePeopleDisappointmentMeIdeas
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin
FatherDisappointmentPowerfulTool
There is always disappointment, heartache. You are losing almost every tournament. You need to just accept it and be positive because you are going to lose and fail. We're not all Nadal or Djokovic, who can win most tournaments.
Stan Wawrinka
PositiveLosingDisappointmentWin
There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.
Robbie Keane
DisappointmentWorldThinkExcited
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be.
Romola Garai
WomenFightDisappointmentWinning
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
Monica Johnson
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Joseph Barbera
FailureDisappointmentThoughtLives
Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
David Wain
MoneyDisappointmentAmericanFind
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Clare Short
WomenMenDisappointmentYouFind
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell
ChildrenParentsDisappointmentEarly
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges
DisappointmentMovingTransitionOur
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
DisappointmentSocietySelfBoldOur
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone
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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
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Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.
Ryan Holiday
PerfectionDisappointmentSatisfaction
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
HopeDisappointmentLoseInfinite
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
Leonard Boswell
LeadershipDisappointmentActionNeed
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
Kristin Armstrong
GratitudePeaceJoyDisappointment
I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.
Gina McKee
LoveDisappointmentThinkYouI Can
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.
Eric Alterman
DisappointmentArgumentBigTakeFew
In a sense, human beings are human beings. Their feelings of aloneness, of brokenness, their feelings of hurt and disappointment, are universal. It's the ways they choose to act on their feelings that separates them.
David Harbour
DisappointmentHurtChooseFeelings
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
Bill Bryson
GreatDisappointmentMeShopping
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
Rebecca Stead
TimeDisappointmentFirstThrough
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