Disappointment Quotes Page 4

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


Disappointment is often the salt of life
~Theodore Parker

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
~Letitia Landon

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
~Edward G. Bulwer Lytton


Never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.
~Unknown




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


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

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
~Arthur Gordon


Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
~Dag Hammarskjold


To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail.
~Wesley Woo

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
~Unknown

Never regret anything you have been through, because only with those trials will you become a better person the next day.
~Crystal Hunt


You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they do.
~Unknown


One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.
~Epictetus

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
~Thomas Moore

Short Disappointment Quotes

Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.
~Mike Howerton


The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth
~Benjamin Disraeli



Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder storm is to the air.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller



The sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~Thomas Jefferson


Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
~Unknown


Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
~Liberace

Disappointment is the common worm
That feasts on all the fairest!
~ C. B. Langston

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom
~ Bayle Roche


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

If you're going thru hell, keep going.
~Rob Estes


Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.
~Mike Howerton

We can't move ahead if we're trying to get even.
~Frank Tyger


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

You can't have a better past.
~Richard Carlson


Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
~Jim Rohn


Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown

Disappointment Quotes Page 3

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
~Cordell Hull



There's nothing worse than loving somebody who disappoints you...
~ Unknown

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
~William Throsby Bridges




I hope that my achievements in life shall be these that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.
~ C. Hoppe


Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~John Donne

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
~Walter Elliott

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
~Helen Keller

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcythe bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
~Eric Hoffer,

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
~Norman Mac Donald


The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
~ Robert Kiyosaki

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
~ Catharine Esther Beecher

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

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
~Phyllis Bottome

Disappointment Quotes Page 2

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


He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
~ P.G. Wodehouse


If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say Just what I expected, if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
~ Amy Wilson Carmichael


God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
~Henry Ward Beecher


All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
~ Norman MacDonald



Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
~ Henry Ward Beecher



He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
~Arabian Proverb

Disappointment is often the salt of life.
~Theodore Parker

I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose.
~Woodrow Wilson


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
~Kurt Vonnegut

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
~Robert Goheen

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~Voltaire


It isn't for the moment we are struck that we need courage, but for the long uphill battle to faith, sanity, and security.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
~ Otomo No Yakamochi

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
~Cyril Connolly


Encourage one another, day after day, as long as it is still called today.
~Hebrews 3:13

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~Elbert Hubbard