Top 100 Quotes About Disappointment
#1. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.
Charles Dickens
#3. Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
Bette Davis
#4. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.
Mara Schiavocampo
#5. I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
Larisa Oleynik
#6. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.
Silvia Hartmann
#7. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.
Anne Lamott
#8. Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.
Deborah Moggach
#9. Don't be shaped by regret, disappointment, fear of the future, resentment and the like. The Lord's joy is your strength. Enjoy it.
Terry Virgo
#10. I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
Ben Affleck
#11. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.
Michael Chabon
#12. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
Jay Carney
#13. Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People
Charles Dickens
#14. Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
Baron De Montesquieu
#15. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.
Dana Marton
#16. A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good
a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#17. You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Duane Michals
#18. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Tom Robbins
#19. Donovan Caine wanted me, but he wasn't strong enough to accept me. Not my past, not my strength, not the woman I was. Bitter disappointment filled me, replacing my rage, but I forced myself to ask the final question I wanted an answer to ...
Jennifer Estep
#20. Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.
El DeBarge
#21. I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.
Olivia Sudjic
#22. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.
Marty Rubin
#23. The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
Roy Wilkins
#24. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Norm MacDonald
#25. Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.
Tony Robbins
#27. Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.
Paul Cellucci
#28. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. Most of all, it was the wild music that impressed Matt. It did the same thing that playing the piano had done when he was frightened and lonely. It took him into another world where only beauty existed and where he was sage from hatred and disappointment and death.
Nancy Farmer
#30. The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#31. It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#33. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.
Shampa Sharma
#34. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
#35. I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
Dani Shapiro
#36. And then he was there, staring at me from behind the screen door. I'd like to say he no longer affected me, that seeing him was a disappointment. But it wasn't true. I felt as strongly about him as I had on that first day I'd seen him in calculus class.
Candace Bushnell
#37. Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.
J.K. Rowling
#38. 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
#39. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.
Joyce Meyer
#40. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.
Daniel Abraham
#41. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
Bryant McGill
#42. Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai
#43. Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
John Edward Williams
#44. If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.
Loretta Young
#45. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
Calvin Coolidge
#46. The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.
Henry David Thoreau
#47. The worst thing that could happen is that we hold back and play tentative because we "fear" disappointment. If we cannot accept the possibility we might fail, we most certainly are not prepared to succeed.
Mike Margolies
#48. My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.
Buzz Aldrin
#49. If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now you will suffer the pain of regret and disappointment later.
Unknown
#50. Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life
one that must be dealt with.
Joyce Meyer
#51. Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.
Scott Turow
#52. Disappointment gives you Fear.
Credence gives you Strength.
Mohith Agadi
#53. Thank God I have my fraternity brothers. Real families are a disappointment.
Kandi Steiner
#54. Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.
Tarthang Tulku
#55. Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
George Orwell
#56. I no longer believe
in fairytale endings since
I stopped kissing boys
with mouthfuls of disappointment and
started treating my body like
a burning building
so nobody can get close enough
to get inside of me.
Sade Andria Zabala
#57. I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Francine Mathews
#58. While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
#59. Let disappointment do its deep work
remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself.
Emily P. Freeman
#60. You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
Candace Bushnell
#61. I was the breakable one. Women always are. It's not so much a question of one big disappointment, though. It's more like a thousand little disappointments raining down on top of each other. After a while it gets to seem like a flood, and the first thing you know you're drowning.
Carol Shields
#62. The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
Gustave Flaubert
#63. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?
Simon Critchley
#64. If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.
Oswald Chambers
#65. At some time or another, everyone was failed by this world. Disappointment was the one thing humans had in common.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
Gustave Flaubert
#67. It was a source of constant disappointment to Catherine Morland that her life did not more closely resemble her books. Or rather, that the books in which she found its likeness were so unexciting.
Val McDermid
#69. Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.
Billy Graham
#70. Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
#71. We've had too much death and disappointment, so we don't know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.
Cora Carmack
#72. 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
#73. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
#74. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.
John Edward Williams
#75. Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.
Torkom Saraydarian
#76. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.
Eric Bana
#77. Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole
from White City
Shane MacGowan
#78. Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?
Surya Das
#79. Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.
Alessandra Torre
#80. I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment.
P.G. Wodehouse
#81. Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.
Jeff Thomson
#82. Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
Henry Rollins
#83. Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away.
Dov Davidoff
#84. Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void ...
Emily Giffin
#85. My life was full of drama, with the highs and lows of Tyler's daily mood swings and my private innuendos with Vandenberg. There'd never been a movie made that could permanently shift my mood away from my disappointment with myself.
J.C. Patrick
#86. As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.
Carlos Wallace
#87. Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
Albert Schweitzer
#88. He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael Chabon
#89. I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments
Robin Wasserman
#90. I am stronger than I use to be. As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream ... and strong enough to handle disappointment.
Kristin Hannah
#91. 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
#92. People who expect too much are always disappointed. You would do well to remember that, my boy.
Charmian Hussey
#93. There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take ... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Rosa Parks
#94. There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.
Nick Saban
#95. I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.
David Rees
#96. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
#97. 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
#98. Try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#99. I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
Dave Goldberg
#100. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
Seamus Heaney
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