Quotes about Disappointment

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is a sense of loss for something you never had.
~ Deb Caletti,

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
~ Tamora Pierce


What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
~ Willem Lange






I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
~ Upton Sinclair



You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
~George Eliot

Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.
~Viramma Racine

The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth: let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair.
~Benjamin Disrali



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





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



A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
~Jane Austen

When made frustrated and fretful by small cares, look up at the sky, the stars, and see how insignificant our troubles really are.
~Unknown



Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
~La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
~La Rochefoucauld





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


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

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
~Henry Ward Beecher

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.
~William Penn




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


It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
~ Thomas Moore

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground
~ Jamie McGuire





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


These slight disappointments are sent to prepare For what may hereafter befall;For seasons of real disappointment and care,Which commonly happen to all.
~Jane Taylor


There is the risk you cannot afford to take and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.
~Peter Drucker


You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
~Wayne Gretzky





It is our choices, Harry, that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.
Albus Dumbledore in one of the Harry Potter books




I came to feel that the most loving thing I could do for anyone was to tell them how it was with me and share my imperfections with them. When I did this, most people came back at me with what was deep within them.
Jess Lair

You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life. . . You were made with a purpose.
~Og Mandino

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder storm is to the air
~ Friedrich von Schiller



The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.
~Thomas Hardy


Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.
~Viramma Racine


Don’t get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous—it’s the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
~Anne Shannon Monroe

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you deal with it is what makes the difference.
~Virginia Satir

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Marilyn vos Savant



The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Ralph W. Sockman

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom


The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~ Billy Graham



You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dream.
~Oprah Winfrey


Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~Leo Buscaglia


What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
~Dr. Robert H. Schuller




There are times in our lives when we are on narrow roads. At those times, we are fools if we try to maintain our usual speed.
~Unknown

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.
~Oprah Winfrey



May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~ Edward Abbey




No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
~ Unknown


To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~ Tony Dorsett


Trouble is part of your life. If you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~Dinah Shore



Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
~ Andre Gide


Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon


Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
~ Richard Nixon

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
~Margaret Thatcher



A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
~Bob Dylan

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision. But a today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
~Unknown


Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that ? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie


If you're never scared or embarassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
~ Julia Sorel



What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ William Morrow

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~George Eliot


The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus





Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
~ Harold V. Melchert

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

Famous Disappointment Quotes

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
~ Ava Gardner


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


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





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



To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets
~ Samuel Johnson



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




Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there.
~Eileen Kennedy moore




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


I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.
~Ronaldo


The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
~ Thomas Hardy



Rigid beliefs make disappointments seem unbearable, whereas realistic beliefs help us to accept disappointment and go on from there.
~Eileen Kennedy Moore




The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.
~Thomas Hardy

Good Disappointment Quotes

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
~Abraham Crowley



The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
~ Thomas Hardy

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
~Evan Esar


The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
~David Gower

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder storm is to the air
~Friedrich Von Schiller

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.
~Robbie Keane


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

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.
~Sandra McKendry


Toddlers who don’t learn gradually about disappointment lose their resilience through lack of practice in give and take with other people’s needs. They can become self centered, demanding, and difficult to like or to be with.
~Alicia F Lieberman



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



Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
~ Scott Turow



I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert



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

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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

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.