It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is a sense of loss for something you never had.
~ Deb Caletti,
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
~ Tamora Pierce
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
~ Willem Lange
I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
~ Upton Sinclair
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
~George Eliot
Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.
~Viramma Racine
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
~Benjamin Disrali
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
~Samuel Johnson
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
~Frances Wright
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
~Jane Austen
When made frustrated and fretful by small cares, look up at the sky, the stars, and see how insignificant our troubles really are.
~Unknown
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
~La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
~La Rochefoucauld
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
~Arthur Helps
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~ Jim Rohn
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
~Henry Ward Beecher
For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
~William Penn
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
~ Walt Disney
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
~ Thomas Moore
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground
~ Jamie McGuire
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment
~ Samuel Johnson
These slight disappointments are sent to prepare For what may hereafter befall;For seasons of real disappointment and care,Which commonly happen to all.
~Jane Taylor
There is the risk you cannot afford to take and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
~Peter Drucker
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
~Wayne Gretzky
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.
Albus Dumbledore in one of the Harry Potter books
I came to feel that the most loving thing I could do for anyone was to tell them how it was with me and share my imperfections with them. When I did this, most people came back at me with what was deep within them.
Jess Lair
You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life. . . You were made with a purpose.
~Og Mandino
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder storm is to the air
~ Friedrich von Schiller
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.
~Thomas Hardy
Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.
~Viramma Racine
Don’t get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous—it’s the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
~Anne Shannon Monroe
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.
~Virginia Satir
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Marilyn vos Savant
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~ Billy Graham
You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.
~Oprah Winfrey
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~Leo Buscaglia
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
~Dr. Robert H. Schuller
There are times in our lives when we are on narrow roads. At those times, we are fools if we try to maintain our usual speed.
~Unknown
That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.
~Oprah Winfrey
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~ Edward Abbey
No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
~ Unknown
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~ Tony Dorsett
Trouble is part of your life. If you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~Dinah Shore
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Andre Gide
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon
Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
~ Richard Nixon
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
~Margaret Thatcher
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
~Bob Dylan
Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But a today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
~Unknown
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that ? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie
If you're never scared or embarassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
~ Julia Sorel
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ William Morrow
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~George Eliot
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
~ Harold V. Melchert
