90 Disappointment Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing disappointment quotes and sayings.
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Short Disappointment Sayings
“Suspense is worse than disappointment.” —Robert Burns
“Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” —Bayle Roche
“Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.” —Unknown
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.” —Thomas Fuller
“Disappointment tears the bearable film of life.” —Elizabeth Bowen
“No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.” —Jude Morgan
“Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.” —Nike Howerton
“How Disappointment tracks the steps of Hope!” —L. E. Landon
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” —Dolly Parton
“The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God.” —Sunday Adelaja
“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.” —Tonya Hurley
“Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” —Rogienel Reyes
“Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.” —Evan Esar
“Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.” —Mason Cooley
“A pier is a disappointed bridge.” —Julian Barnes
“Use disappointments as material for patience.” —Unknown
“Disappointment is often the salt of life.” —Theodore Parker
“Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.” —Chogyam Trungpa
“I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. I actively seek it out.” —Bill Bailey
“Don’t ever let a bad day make you feel like you’ll have a bad life.” —Unknown
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” —W.B. Yeats
“Disappointment is another brother for endurance.” —Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
“Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.” —Charles Stanley
“One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.” —Silvia Hartmann
“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.” —Grahan Greene
Disappointment Sayings
“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” —Unknown
“The easiest way men choose to console their disappointment is by criticizing.” —Prabakaran Thirumalai
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy — the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” —Eric Hoffer
“I give and give, even when I get nothing back – and that sets me up for disappointment.” —Angie Stone
“Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.” —Suzy Kassem
“Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.” —Unknown
“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.” —Carl Jung
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” —Jim Rohn
“Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.” —Murray Gell Mann
“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” —Eliza Tabor
“people change for the better or for the worse, in this case it was for the worse.” —Unknown
“First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.” —Maximilian Schell
“Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the person you thought would never hurt you.” —Unknown
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” —Les Brown
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” —Alexander Pope
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” —Jim Rohn
“Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.” —Laurence Overmire
“Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.” —Samuel P. Huntington
“There are only two possibilities why you’re disappointed: wrong person or wrong expectation.” —Unknown
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” —Henry David Thoreau
“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” —Ryan Reynolds
“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” —Kristin Armstrong
“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” —Paulo Coelho
“Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have less disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.” —Unknown
“Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.” —W.C. Bennett
“The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.” —Fred G. Gosman
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” —Henry David Thoreau
“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” —Alain de Botton
“Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.” —Ambrose Bierce
“But you know that 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
“Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.” —Laurence Overmire
“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
“Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.” —Bernard Baruch
“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” —Alain de Botton
“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.” —Thomas Jefferson
“He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.” —Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” —Beverly Sills
“Disappointment or misfortune doesn’t last long among us, the poor; we can’t live if we brood on them the whole time.” —Viramma Racine
“Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” —David Rudisha
“See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation.” —Jean Cocteau
“Tomorrow is not guarantee to anyone,no expectations no disappointment.” —Unknown
“Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have less disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.” —Kevin
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.” —Thomas Hardy
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I’d lived through several of them already.” —R.J. Anderson
“All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.” —Norman McDonald
“We wind up disappointed with our life and end up depressed because we have wasted it.” —Sunday Adelaja
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.” —Norman MacDonald
“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” —Kate Chisman
“Don’t expect things to happen it’s better to be surprised than be disappointed.” —Unknown
“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
“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
Top Ten Disappointment Sayings
Here you will find top ten disappointment sayings selected by our team.
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.” —Suzy Kassem
- “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” —Bayle Roche
- “Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.” —B. A. Fajimi
- “No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.” —Jude Morgan
- “Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.” —Laurence Overmire
- “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” —Dolly Parton
- “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” —Rogienel Reyes
- “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” —Unknown
