Top 80 Quotes About Disappointment in Life (LOVE)

Top 17 Most Famous Quotes About Disappointment (BEST)

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
Joel Osteen

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 — 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**

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr. — We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite **hope**. – **Martin Luther King, Jr.**

“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

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills — You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – **Beverly Sills**

Disappointment is a sign that you are growing and progressing. Stay hopeful and determined. Your best days are still ahead. — Disappointment is a sign that you are **growing** and progressing. Stay **hopeful** and **determined**. Your best days are still ahead.

Disappointments are not meant to destroy you. They are meant to strengthen you and make you resilient.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. - Jeremiah Say — Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. – **Jeremiah Say**

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. — Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of **luck**. – **Dalai Lama**

“It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.”
Jacque Fresco

Disappointment is an opportunity for resilience, wisdom, and personal growth. Embrace it as a stepping stone to your success. — Disappointment is an **opportunity** for **resilience**, **wisdom**, and personal **growth**. Embrace it as a stepping stone to your **success**.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice. - Charles Stanley — Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice. – Charles Stanley

We must all suffer one of two things the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. - Jim Rohn — We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of **regret** or disappointment. – **Jim Rohn**

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier. - John Wooden — If we magnified **blessings** as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much **happier**. – **John Wooden**

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. - Ryan Reynolds — When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. – **Ryan Reynolds**

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. - Thomas S. Monson — The principles of living greatly include the **capacity** to face trouble with **courage**, disappointment with **cheerfulness**, and trial with **humility**. – Thomas S. Monson

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 — 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

6 Quotes About Disappointment In Relationship

“You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in – and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.”
Karen Salmansohn

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. - Friedrich Nietzsche — I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. – **Friedrich Nietzsche**

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen — **Friendship** is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – **Jane Austen**

No one gets tired of loving, they just get tired of waiting, apologizing, getting disappointed and being hurt.

“When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.”
Joseph Campbell

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious both are disappointed. - Oscar Wilde — Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. – **Oscar Wilde**

4 Quotes about Disappointment in Acting

“You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don’t, and it’s a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.”
Michael B. Jordan

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. - Rufus Sewell — Yes, years of **compromise** and disappointment have added depth to my acting. – Rufus Sewell

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself… there's a lot of disappointment in this business. - Henry Cavill — Regrets are something you can’t really have as an actor, because ultimately you’ll end up destroying yourself… there’s a lot of disappointment in this **business**. – Henry Cavill

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. - Famke Janssen — I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it’s great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. – Famke Janssen

5 Quotes About Disappointment That Inspires Faith in God

“Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.”
Charles Stanley

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 — 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**

“This is a day of little faith – of few convictions – a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, ‘You can’t change human nature.’ It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.”
Peter Marshall

“Without transformation, you can assume you’re at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.”
Richard Rohr

“Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.”
Monica Johnson

18 Quotes About Disappointment In Life That Will Encourage You To Do Better

“Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear or disappointment fuel your drive to be great. Because it will be in those moments of fear that we have to realize we must redefine success and what it means to us.”
Jason McCourty

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. - Kristin Armstrong — When we **focus** on our **gratitude**, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in. – Kristin Armstrong

“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

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau — If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – **Henry David Thoreau**

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 — 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

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. - Les Brown — Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. – **Les Brown**

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. - Thomas Hardy — The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate **fulfillment** of that hope never entirely removes. – **Thomas Hardy**

“As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I’ve come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way.”
Marianne Williamson

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger. - David Rudisha — Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger. – David Rudisha

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. - Carol Burnett — When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. – Carol Burnett

The only way I know to get out of disappointment is to work hard, keep doing the right things, and don't make any rash decisions. - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer — The only way I know to get out of disappointment is to work hard, keep doing the right things, and don’t make any rash decisions. – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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 — 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

Disappointment builds character and strength. - Nafessa Williams — Disappointment builds **character** and strength. – Nafessa Williams

You can't dwell on disappointment. You've got to take the positives and keep looking ahead. - AJ Tracey — You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead. – AJ Tracey

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher — Men’s best successes come after their disappointments. – **Henry Ward Beecher**

Struggle and disappointment are necessary ingredients to success both in the present and in the future. - Britney Watkins — Struggle and disappointment are necessary ingredients to success both in the present and in the **future**. – Britney Watkins

Disappointment is often the salt of life. - Theodore Parker — Disappointment is often the salt of life. – Theodore Parker

2 Quotes About Disappointment In Sports

The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer. - Harry Maguire — The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer. – Harry Maguire

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. - Nick Hornby — The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. – Nick Hornby

2 Quotes About Disappointment In Family

“The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.”
James E. Faust

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. - Euripides — **Lucky** that man whose children make his **happiness** in life and not his **grief**, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – **Euripides**

2 Funny Quotes About Disappointment

“I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together’.”
Mark Twain

“Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.”
Jeremy Clarkson

2 Quotes About Disappointment in War

“My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.”
Elie Wiesel

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. - Geezer Butler — I don’t feel a lack of hope. It’s just disappointment that after all these years we’re still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people. – Geezer Butler

2 Quotes About Disappointment That Will Brighten Your Curiosity

“People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, on the first place, I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it’s too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.”
Robert Rauschenberg

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. - Charles Lamb — Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. – Charles Lamb

20 Quotes About Disappointment That Will Make You Think

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
Benjamin Britten

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. - Ambrose Bierce — Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. – **Ambrose Bierce**

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. - Carl Jung — A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. – **Carl Jung**

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. - Jean Cocteau — See your disappointments as good **fortune**. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. – Jean Cocteau

“As I look back and connect the dots, all I want to do is go back and hug my scared young self, who took a lot of steps out of impulse not knowing what will happen. So many nights of disappointment, so many others of being disillusioned where I would have just gone ahead and quit it all – I still do not know what kept me hanging in there.”
Arfi Lamba

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. - Martin Luther King, Jr. — There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.”
Vermin Supreme

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. - Conan O'Brien — The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. – Conan O’Brien

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment. - Ryan Holiday — Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment. – Ryan Holiday

“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honored, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.”
Oscar Wilde