Disappointment Quotes

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.

A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.

Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

Life is a great disappointment.

The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

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

When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

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.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

There are lots of stories about how philosophy begins. Some people claim it begins in wonder; some people claim it begins in worry. I claim it begins in disappointment.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.

I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

Get used to disappointment.

To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.