Disappointment Quotes Page 5

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
~Hindu Proverb


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain


Do not tell me, for I've heard it all, there is too much to do with hate, but much more to do with love.
~William Shakespeare


The stories of past courage can offer hope and provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul.
~John F. Kennedy

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
~Henry Van Dyke


It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
~Alan Cohen

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~Marcus Aurelius

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
~Samuel Johnson


I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head butt somebody.
~Greg Norman


Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
~Dean Koontz


Suspense is worst than disappointment.
~Robert Burns


Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
~Unknown

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
~Judith Kelman





The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
~ F.D.R.