Disappointment Quotes
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Disappointment Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.
— Eleanor Brown
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
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
Here a tower shining brightOnce 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
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy
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
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
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
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
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