1. “Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have less disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.” ― Kevin Ngo
2. “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.
3. “What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.” ― Joyce Meyer
4. “Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.” ― Chogyam Trungpa
5. “We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.” ― MLK Jr
6. “If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.” ― Cate Blanchett
7. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
9. “One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.” ― Silvia Hartmann
10. “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
11. “Let’s face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can’t expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life–one that must be dealt with.” ― Joyce Meyer
12. “God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
13. “Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.” ― Friedrich Schiller
14. “Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.” ― William Throsby Bridges
15. “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
16. “You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.” ― Gillan Tans
17. “Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment.” ― Ryan Holiday
18. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
19. “You will end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.
20. “Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” ― Joyce Meyer
21. “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” ― Eric Hoffer
22. “Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.” ― Samuel Johnson
23. “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” ― Jim Rohn
24. “Every disappointment gives you the opportunity to make another appointment.” ― Anonymous
25. “Never depend on other people to make you happy because you’ll end up being disappointed as expectations always hurt.” ― Anonymous
26. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” ― Ryan Reynolds
27. “High expectations lead to higher disappointments.
28. “I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.” ― Seamus Heaney
29. “Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.” ― Suzy Kassem
30. “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
31. “Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” ― David Rushida
32. “Let’s face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can’t expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life–one that must be dealt with.” ― Joyce Meyer
33. “A burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” ― Marsha Sinetar
34. “Don’t ever let a bad day make you feel like you’ll have a bad life.” ― Anonymous
35. “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” ― Conan O’Brien
36. “If you think one day you will get it all done, and then you can relax, you are bound to be disappointed.” ― Christina Winsey-Rudd
37. “Disappointment is simply a dream that doesn’t want to become a reality.” ― Richard Wilkins
38. “Sometimes, just when I think I know people, they disappoint me in ways I never thought they could.” ― Anonymous
39. “Life is not always a celebration; so be ready to courageously face disappointments when they come, and be sure to grow stronger and wiser from them.” ― Edmond Mbiaka
40. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” ― Beverly Sills
41. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
42. “Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
43. “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” ― Eric Hoffer
44. “Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” ― Eliza Tabor
45. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” ― Henry Ward Beecher
46. “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
47. “Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.” ― Anonymous
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