Quotes About Expectation And Disappointment

#1. Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

Tarthang Tulku

#2. For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

Guy Finley

#4. I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.

Sara Watkins

#5. HOPE AND EXPECTATION ARE NOT THE SAME THING, THOUGH BOTH WILL LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT. EXIST IN THE MOMENT, ACCEPTING ALL THINGS AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM BE.

Mark T. Barnes

#6. The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#7. I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

Semir Zeki

#8. Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.

Anthony Liccione

#10. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty. Kate.
It's the bargain I've made with myself. If I can't caress her body with my hands, I paint it with my brushes. Use my fingers to trace her lines.

Amy Plum

#12. How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.

Armistead Maupin

#13. When someone focuses on the expectation of accolades rather than the enjoyment of the work process, that person is setting up himself for disappointment.

Steve Hickner

#14. For all our failings. Despite our limitations fallibilities. We humans are capable of greatness

Carl Sagen

#15. Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

#16. Art is longer than life.

Lee Strasberg

#17. Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit,
And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

Aphra Behn

#18. Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Idries Shah

#20. I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

Star Jones

#21. Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

#22. Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country ... A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.

John Willis Ellis

#23. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

#24. Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.

John C. Maxwell

#25. Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Samuel Johnson

#26. In public administration good sense would seem to require the public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize the eventual disappointment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#27. Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.

Randall Jarrell

#28. If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Cate Blanchett

#29. The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#30. My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

Al Franken

#31. Flash Floods are about as predictable as a crazy dream after one too many fish tacos - one minutes you're fine, and the next minute a moose is floating past you wearing a fishing hat and ladies' pajamas.

Doreen Cronin

#32. No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#33. He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Samuel Johnson

#34. Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

Pawan Mishra

#35. Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

John Ortberg