Disappointment Quotes Page 5

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
~ Arthur Helps

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment
~ Publilius Syrus
Because:
Suspense is worst than disappointment
~Robert Burns

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



Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
~Eliza Tabor

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
~Fred G. Gosman

I am not a bad person. I am a person who often does bad things, but more often does good things. And if that’s good enough for God, it should be good enough for me.
~Harold S. Kushner

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon


The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
~H. Jackson Brown


Disappointment Quotes on Art:
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
~Henry Hoskins


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca

I complained that I had no shoes till I saw a man that had no feet.
~Unknown

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~Albert Camus