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" A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. "

" Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition. "

Jeremy Clarkson

" America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. "

" And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment. "

" Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. "

" As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs. "

" As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all - I still do not know what kept me hanging in there. "

" As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse of the sun, the return of Halley's Comet, and the first trip to the Moon. I've still never seen that eclipse, and Halley's comet was a disappointment, but my sense of wonder was diamond-bright on that July 20, 1969. "

Phyllis Eisenstein

" Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. "

" At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge. "

" Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand? "

" 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. "

" Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment. "

" Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment. "

" Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. "

" Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part. "

Stockard Channing

" Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed. "

Robin S. Sharma

" Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. "

" Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best tradition and example of land conservation in the world. It goes back a long way. "

Douglas Tompkins

" Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. "

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

" Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away. "

Kristin Armstrong

" Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. "

Charles Stanley

" Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. "

Jurgen Habermas

" 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

" Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. "

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

Murray Gell-Mann

" Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment. "

Mother Angelica

" Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment. "

" Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. "

Richard Hammond

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