Avoid Disappointment Quotes

#1. As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you'll avoid disappointment ... !

James A. Murphy

#2. Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

Scott Adams

#3. If you always tend to avoid disappointment,
at least you have two issues to be dealt with:
The first is to soften the hardness of your heart;
The second is to solve problems that make you so.

Toba Beta

#4. To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Ellen Glasgow

#6. To avoid disappointment, know what is sufficient. To avoid trouble, know when to stop. If you are able to do this, you will last a long time.

Lao-Tzu

#7. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

#8. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Robert Mugabe

#10. Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

Lord Acton

#11. It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.

Craig Ferguson

#12. Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

George Washington

#13. The tragic majority of MT applications look like drunken bar fights.

Anonymous

#14. We try to equalize before the others have scored.

Danny Denzongpa

#15. He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#16. When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquility, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight - disappointment and defeat - become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

J.K. Rowling

#18. All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Gabriela Mistral

#19. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.

Denise Grover Swank

#20. At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

Henry A. Kissinger

#22. We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.

John Lancaster Spalding

#23. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.

Emily Blunt

#24. I've always been a fan of therapy. You spend an entire hour talking about yourself and someone has to fake being fascinated by the strange assemblage of minutiae that is you.

Jenny Lawson