We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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