The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
The ones who disappoint you need you the most.
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
Not wanting to disappoint is what pushed me to be successful.
You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God’s faithfulness, not yours.
Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?
The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.
A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappointment s.
If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.
When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you