Disappointment Quotes

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  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

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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  You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

  Michael Chabon

  Half, Fulfilled

  "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Agony

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• Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Illusion, Results, Removal

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• 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

  Disappointing, Knows, Ifs

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Pain, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 13, 2015

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Mistake

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

  Evan Esar

  Today, Tomorrow, Veneer

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• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Salt, Disappointment Love, Disappoint

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.116

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• Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mind, Changing Your Life, Permanent Change

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 18, 2016

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• Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

  Scott Turow

  Want, Melancholy

  Scott Turow (2002). “Reversible Errors: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

  Jean Cocteau

  Deflation, Fortune, Plans

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

  John Mason Brown

  Happiness, Heart, Journey

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• Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Voice, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.155

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• Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Irritation, Perfect

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

  Robert Genn

  Teacher, Abandonment, Wells

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• Suspense is worst than disappointment.

  Robert Burns

  Anxiety, Suspense, Worst

  Letter to Thomas Sloan, September 1, 1791.

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• Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Disappointed Love, Greater, Values

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  Catharine Beecher

  Marriage, Heart, Suffering

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Laughter

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• 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

  Attitude, Expectations, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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