Motivational Disappointment Quotes

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
~Ambrose Bierce

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
~Les Brown


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



The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson


What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.
Robert Wyatt


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

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


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!
Sir William Osler

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
Mary Wesley

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
~Greg Ginn

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
~Henry David Thoreau

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

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
~Clare Short

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed
~Laurence Overmire

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


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



You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
~Beverly Sills