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Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment. -- Emmet Fox
When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment. -- M.F. Moonzajer
When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments. -- Raghav Bahl
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. -- Joseph Barbera
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. -- Eleanor Catton
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. -- Michael J. Fox
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure. -- Bryant H. McGill
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. -- Susie Orbach
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. -- Laurence Housman
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! -- William Osler
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. -- Tom Baker
In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. -- Colin Powell
The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem. -- Shelley E. Taylor
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. -- Jimmy Carter
Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame. -- Kathryn Minshew
Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat. -- Jeanne Robertson
To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. -- Boyd K. Packer
Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure. -- Lorii Myers
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. -- Agnes Martin
If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure. -- Boyd K. Packer
The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. -- Deborah Moggach
Never be afraid of failure or disappointment, because those are just temporary experiences on the path to your dreams coming true -- Doreen Virtue
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief. -- Kazuaki Tanahashi
To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted. -- Helen Keller
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit. -- Napoleon Hill

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