Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success. . . Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
To me probably the biggest disappointments, as far as a football career goes, is I feel like I didn't live up to my potential, and I didn't win a Super Bowl ring.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.
Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.
While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.
My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
no expectations, no disappointments!
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.