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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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• There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Sad

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.67, Beacon Press

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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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• 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

  Littles, Faces, Facts

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• There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Careers, Emptiness

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• Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

  Boyle Roche

  Inspirational, Nurse, Obstacles

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• There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

  Michael J. Fox

  Loss, Secret, Vacuums

  "A Lesson In Life From Michael J. Fox". Interview, www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

  Geezer Butler

  War, Fighting, Years

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• All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

  Norm MacDonald

  People, Weak, Enterprise

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• Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

  Patricia McCormick

  Expectations, Looks, Strategy

  Patricia McCormick (2011). “Cut”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

  Douglas Adams

  Expectations, Sorrow, Fruit

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Love, Children, Age

  Bruno Bettelheim (1988). “A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-rearing”, Vintage

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• It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

  Plautus

  Benefits, Bitter, Injury

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• Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

  Mary Douglas

  Hands, Expectations, Promise

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