Disappointment Quotes

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope, Lose, Accept

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Success, Strength, Dream

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn

Pain, Regret, Two

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer

Hope, Soul, Bankruptcy

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

Find, Enough, Quiet

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Love, Marriage, Spiritual

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Love, Beauty, Music

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

Courage, Humility, Living

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
Charles Stanley

Trust, God, Him

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

Nothing, Give, Sets

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

Beautiful, Woman, Rule

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Power, Morning, After

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar

Hope, Today, Tomorrow

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley

Life, Truth, Fear

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

Down, Put, Head

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges

Moving, Lives, Whether

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy

Hope, Ultimate, Leaves

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney

Help, America, Wish

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

Failure, Learning, Secret

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Present, Eternity

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
Conan O'Brien

Beauty, True, Through

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

Often, Test, Landscape

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Said, Maturity

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill

Happiness, Hope, Failure

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

Hand, Injustice, Promises

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Murray Gell-Mann

Depression, Enthusiasm, Renewed

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Maximilian Schell

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods

Business, Young, Everyone

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Cate Blanchett

Life, Great, Enough

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