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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country. — Jane Austen

Victory is never won alone. — Woodrow M. Kroll

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun. — Cammie McGovern

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up. — LZ Granderson

The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it. — Vannary Rang

Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away. — Dov Davidoff

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering! — James MacDonald

Don't lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place. — Brody Dalle

Making the hard to decision to throw away a once favorite bra is like deleting an ex-friend that repeatedly let you down. — Crystal Woods

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. — Charles Lamb

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.) — Gustave Flaubert

first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment... — Dave Duncan

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. — Gary Hopkins

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. — Peggy Noonan

bright lights," he said. "I'm afraid we're a disappointment compared to Hollywood's — Douglas E. Richards

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says. — Candace Bushnell

Trust may be in short supply after years of disappointments. However, improvement could come in a bat of an eye! — Jon Jones

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy. — Sheryl Sandberg

Anything so that we can stop talking about me and what an utmost disappointment I am. — Mary Kubica

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. — Ryan Reynolds

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret Of Valois

Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment. — Claudia Rankine

Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. — Max Lucado

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer

I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue. — Dominic Peloso

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully. — Paul Cellucci

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all. — Rodney Dangerfield

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

Unfaithfulness of team members is a difficult test that may bring disappointment to a leader. — Sunday Adelaja

Disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight. — David Quammen

Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give. — Hanif Kureishi

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive. — Jean Alesi

The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment. — Dorothy Dunnett

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts. — Eleanor Brown

Never see yourself as a disappointment or failure just because you were fired — Sunday Adelaja

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice. — Charles Stanley

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

Trying to hold onto "how it was" will only create suffering and disappointment, because life is a river and everything changes. — Jack Kornfield

I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked. — Lindsey Vonn

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now. — Tom Robbins

But faithfulness can feed on suffering,
And knows no disappointment. — George Eliot

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew. — Michael Chabon

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

Disappointment tears the bearable film of life. — Elizabeth Bowen

Jump to another weird sick disappointment just coming over the horizon. — Chuck Palahniuk

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. — Henry Ward Beecher

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. — Criss Jami

Don't disappointment me, son." Yeah, fuck you, daddy. O — J.R. Ward

Here a tower shining bright
Once stood gleaming in the night
Where now
There's just the rubble in the hole
from White City — Shane MacGowan

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral. — David Gerrold

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment? — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. — Fannie Flagg

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams. — James Franco

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. — Mary Wesley

Do you have any sort of plan?" Jack asked.
"Not really."
"Eh, just as well. It'll be less of a disappointment when you fail. — Kiersten White

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments. — Paulo Coelho

True defeat, is when you allow yourself to become jaded by pain and disappointment. — K.A. Hosein

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. — Orhan Pamuk

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope. — Robert A. Heinlein

Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about. — Paula Creamer

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. — Paige Toon

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. — Elizabeth Gaskell

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. — Bill Bryson

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. — Tonya Hurley

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity. — Daniel Willey

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel. — Julian Barnes

And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement. — Dale Carnegie

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

Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too. — Libba Bray

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony. — Thomas Hardy

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were. — Brad Warner

For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain. — Lacy Danes

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. — Haley Joel Osment

I keep my hope alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads. — Ryan Giggs

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don't expect anything, you don't get disappointed. — Patricia McCormick

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. — John Ortberg

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. — David Morrissey

He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers. — Pete Wentz

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies. — Kirby Larson

Then again, I had become a disappointment. It's easier to find fault with a disappointment. — Matt Abrams

She'd been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales. — Michelle Madow

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin

To demand promises is to invite disappointment -Hester — Jonathan Auxier

Disappointment is part of life's recipe. — Stephenie Bentley Freeman

Love. Safety. Disappointment. Loss. Pain. Abandonment. — Lucinda DuBois

With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it's like a karmic law. — Katie Kacvinsky

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. — Marc Maron

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment. — Kevin J. Anderson

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. — Agnes Martin

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger. — David Rudisha

Enlightenment is your ego's greatest disappointment. — Wayne Dyer

As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter. — Alexis Davis

May the broken hearted be healed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away. — Lady Bird Johnson