Disappointment Quotes

• 

  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

  114 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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.

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.482, Princeton University Press

  1476 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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

  84 Copy quote
• 

  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

  70 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Disappointment is often the salt of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Salt, Disappointment Love, Disappoint

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  514 Copy quote

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  62 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  55 Copy quote

• Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suspense is worst than disappointment.

  Robert Burns

  Anxiety, Suspense, Worst

  Letter to Thomas Sloan, September 1, 1791.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

  Carl Jung

  Beautiful, Hair, Source

  4 Copy quote

• I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

  Angie Stone

  Giving

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Pleasure, Expecting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.116

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

  Margaret of Valois

  Suffering, Credulity, Men

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Self Esteem, Adversity

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.10, Yale University Press

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  19 Copy quote

  Show source