Best 59 quotes in «disappointing quotes» category

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.

For Democrats, anything less than 15 net pickups will be a disappointing outcome [in presidency race].

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.

I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

You get used to it I suppose, but it's always a bit disappointing to see a comic referred to as 'by [writer]' and no one else.

You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.

Disappointment is a blessing. If you were never disappointed, you'd never know what was important to you.

I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don’t change. My reading of them changes—I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you’ve been before, and it welcomes you back.

There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.

It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.