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 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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  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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  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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• Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

  Charles Stanley

  Optimistic, Choices, Discouragement

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• 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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• 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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• The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gains, Originality, Clarity

  "10 of Hollywood's Most Memorable Commencement Speeches" by Courtney Idasetima, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2018.

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.

  Jacque Fresco

  Life, Hurt, Real

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

  Evan Esar

  Today, Tomorrow, Veneer

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• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

  Samuel Johnson

  Darkness, Labyrinth, Employment

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.422, OUP Oxford

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• The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

  John Cheever

  Adults, Culture, Emotion

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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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• 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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• Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

  Charles Lamb

  Feelings, Curiosity, Newspapers

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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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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  People, Expectations, Trying

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• Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

  Judd Nelson

  Growing Up, Real, Heartache

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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