Disappointment Quotes

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

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.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.