Disappointment Quotes

Most popular disappointment quotes

Today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

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And now let me ask you, my friend, whether you do not think, that many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. - Abigail Adams quote.
And now let me ask you, my friend, whether you do not think, that many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

happiness unhappiness

Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison quote.
Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments; but let him have patience, and he will see them in their proper figures.

patience loss

See your disappointments as good fortune.  One plan's deflation is another's inflation. - Jean Cocteau quote.
See your disappointments as good fortune.  One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
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.

failure loss

Expectations destroy our peace of mind, don't they?  They're future disappointments, planned out in advance.

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It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment. - Ellen Glasgow quote.
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
Like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson quote.
Like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
Elizabeth lived by the adage that expectations were disappointments under construction. - Anne Lamott quote.
Elizabeth lived by the adage that expectations were disappointments under construction.

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How Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope. - Letitia Landon quote.
How Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope.

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How we deal with the big disappointments in life depends a great deal on how the people who loved us helped us deal with smaller disappointments when we were little. - Fred Rogers quote.
How we deal with the big disappointments in life depends a great deal on how the people who loved us helped us deal with smaller disappointments when we were little.

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. - Robert Breault quote.
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.