Disappointment

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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The major disappointment was that no deal was announced, because it reflects that it's more difficult than the market thought, that the process may take longer or that the price won't be as high. The cash cows aren't the cash cows people expected and a buyer basically doesn't have to have it.

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We can choose how to think about and react to disappointment, ... At the extremes, one line of thought leads to bitterness and a shriveled soul. The other leads to wisdom and growth.

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This changed the whole psychology of the market from one of disappointment to one of optimism.

- Alfred Kugel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They raised the bar so high in the first season that it kind of lends itself to disappointment. It's like you get a rock band together and they put a fantastic first album out because they spent 20 years working on it and then it's like, what do you do for a follow-up

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Not making the playoffs would be a disappointment to me. Last year, a couple of teams got in with eight, but this year, we're not that fortunate.

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I skied the way I hoped would reflect a positive objective. There's a discrepancy there. There's a moment of confusion and disappointment, but my objective criteria was satisfied.

- Bode Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a disappointment. We thought we had the game in hand but we didn't have a big enough lead to have it in hand. That's the way the National Football League is. You've got to finish it and we didn't finish it tonight.

- Bill Parcells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have to learn how to close it out and we didn't do that. This is a big disappointment. You think you have the game in hand. But that's the way the National Football League is. You have to finish it and we didn't finish it tonight.

- Bill Parcells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I absolutely skied the way I wanted, but when I looked at the board and saw that the way I wanted got a fourth, there was a moment of disappointment. But then it goes away for me right away. This was a confidence builder.

- Bode Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There was clearly a disappointment in the rhetoric from the Fed. It's just a buyers strike.

- Art Hogan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The disappointment in Dell's results came from its guidance and that is obviously going to really impact the technology sector tomorrow and you could see a pullback.

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

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I just want my team to play well. Not making the playoffs would be a disappointment to me.

- Bill Parcells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens.

- Benjamin Disraeli Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Christian Bale Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I went from a state of disappointment, in not getting the bunt down, to disbelief in a matter of two pitches.

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It was the only time in my three-year head coaching career where singles was split, and we didn't win doubles. The girls came back from disappointment to play hard in singles. We almost pulled it out.

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It's a shame that he's gone. It's a disappointment.

- Jerry Jones Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think I had potential to be a legitimate guy out there, but I think I was a disappointment to the Giants because I was inconsistent.

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I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

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The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

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Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

- John Surtees Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes