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