Quotes on Disappointing

No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

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.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

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