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“Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.”
James Buckham
“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”
Helen Keller
“If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”
Loretta Young
“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.”
Laurence Olivier Sir
“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.”
Ansel Adams
“It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation”
Samuel Johnson
“Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”
George Carlin
“I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.”
Groucho Marx
“Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.”
Evan Esar
