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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• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Salt, Disappointment Love, Disappoint

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

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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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• It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

  Deb Caletti

  Sad, Loss, Firsts

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Trust, Cheating

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

  Evan Esar

  Today, Tomorrow, Veneer

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Courage, Humility

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Sunset, Sacrifice

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• First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

  Maximilian Schell

  Love, Firsts, First Love

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• Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

  Clare Short

  Men, Constant, Knows

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Kids, Surround Sound, Corny

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Mind, Ought

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

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• One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.

  Alain de Botton

  Protection

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• I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

  Jean Alesi

  Positive, Race, Being Positive

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

  Robert Wyatt

  Done, Constant

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• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  Euripides

  Fathers Day, Children, Grief

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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