Disappointment Quotes — Page 27

Author, Activist

“To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.”

Wise Disappointment Brave

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”

Long Law Disappointment

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

“In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.”

Running Disappointment Frustration

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George Will

Political Commentator, Author

“The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.”

Expectations History Disappointment

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.”

Disappointment Poetry Serenity

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]”

Looks Clouds Disappointment

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.”

Too Much Disappointment Poetry

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Henry Ford

Industrialist

“Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.”

Chance Disappointment

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Lewis Black

Comedian, Actor, Author

“For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.”

People Thinking Disappointment

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Khalil Gibran

Poet, Writer

“If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.”

Hands Disappointment Hopelessness

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Jane Green

Author

“It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.”

Thinking Perfect Disappointment

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Janet Malcolm

Journalist, Author

“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.”

Eye Disappointment Wrinkles

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