Top 100 Quotes About Disappointments
#1. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.
Silvia Hartmann
#3. It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
Laura Schlessinger
#4. 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
#5. There is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.
Paul Auster
#6. Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.
Saul Bellow
#7. 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
#8. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.
Norm MacDonald
#9. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier
Abraham Lincoln
#10. 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
#11. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.
Calvin Coolidge
#12. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
Rafael Yglesias
#13. 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
#14. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.
Bethany Brookbank
#19. I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.
Karen Thompson Walker
#20. Her internalization of Catholicism and its institutional disappointments suited a dental office perfectly, where guilt was often our last resort for motivating the masses.
Joshua Ferris
#21. Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
#22. I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.
Shane Warne
#23. 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
#24. Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley
#25. 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
#26. Life is not about disappointments but lessons.
Evans Biya
#27. He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.
Kenneth Eade
#28. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.
Lysa TerKeurst
#29. 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
#30. Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
Philip Yancey
#31. 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
#32. The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.
Anne Tyler
#33. How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?
Claudia Rankine
#34. To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
Dallas Willard
#35. I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
Bruce Springsteen
#36. Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
Zig Ziglar
#37. You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you.
V.C. Andrews
#38. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.
Ravi Zacharias
#40. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments
Munia Khan
#42. Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
Charles Stanley
#43. One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.
Nick Frost
#44. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
Antonia Hall
#45. If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.
Donald Harington
#46. There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.
Christian Finnegan
#47. The devil will use fear, pride,jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.
Amanda Penland
#48. It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.
Dane Cook
#49. Satan seeks to build upon past failures, disappointments and weaknesses.
Sandie Freed
#50. A solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.
Ravi Zacharias
#51. We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.
Robert E. Wells
#52. One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#53. All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!
David Berg
#54. Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way.
Stephan Labossiere
#55. Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake
Callie Hunter
#56. Be true to yourself and follow your heart. Never bury yourself in disappointments or mistakes but learn from them and simply don't give it your energy. Focus on the positive and embrace the miracles life gives you. It's call the gift of HOPE.
Jes Fuhrmann
#57. I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Hermann Hesse
#58. You will encounter disappointments in your ministry, in yourself, and even in God Himself but remember that all these are intrigues of the devil
Sunday Adelaja
#59. How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?
Erich Fromm
#60. Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results.
Euginia Herlihy
#61. Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#62. A disorienting change pleases no one yet it builds self made heroes.
Auliq Ice
#63. It's exactly the thing that I'm reduced to doing for myself. It seems to rescue a little, you see, from the wreck of hopes and ambitions, the refuse-heap of disappointments and failures, my one presentable little scrap of an identity.
Henry James
#64. When you learn to accept instead of expect, you'll have fewer disappointments. - Robert Fisher
Kristen Noel
#65. People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.
Sharon Salzberg
#66. Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.
Bryant McGill
#67. We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!
James MacDonald
#69. Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
Anne Lamott
#70. He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.
William Sansom
#71. Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth
Eckhart Tolle
#72. Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
Thomas Watson
#73. When the storms do come; you can only allow them to slow you down, but don't let them stop you, there will be delays, detours, and disappointments but you have to keep pushing through it.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#74. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.
Piper Kerman
#75. Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
Abigail Adams
#76. We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!
Bella Thorne
#77. If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#78. If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.
John Wooden
#79. Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Hector Hugh Munro
#80. Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
Charles Stanley
#81. The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#82. Expectations are merely disappointments under construction.') As
Marian Keyes
#83. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.
James Gould Cozzens
#85. I've had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.
Joyce Maynard
#86. Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#87. We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#88. Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.
Hyrum W. Smith
#89. We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.
Stefan Zweig
#90. I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.
Jim Harrison
#91. There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
John Newton
#92. I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.
Carolina Kostner
#93. The Bible says not to let the sun go down on your anger,' Dad said. 'I've applied that to our marriage, and it's helped us work through plenty of problems and disappointments.'
'You've had problems?'
At the surprise in his tone, Mom laughed. 'Of course we have. We're both sinners, aren't we?
Jody Hedlund
#94. Many of us have pain, regrets, and disappointments buried so far deep down inside ourselves, we have no idea they're there or how they're manifesting in our everyday lives.
Rebecca Rosen
#95. They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#96. So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ.
Ravi Zacharias
#97. The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.
Billy Graham
#98. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- But all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark.
Paulo Coelho
#99. I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#100. Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.
Karan Mahajan
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