Disappointment Quotes & Sayings | Facing Setbacks

Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Never get too attached to anyone, it will lead to expectations and expectations always lead to disappointments…Anticipate everything and expect nothing.

Never expect anything. This way, you’ll never be disappointed.

No expectations, no disappointments.

Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the person you thought you would never let you down.

Expect nothing and you’ll never be disappointed.

Expectations may sometimes lead you to disappointments, but the anger of getting disappointment may sometimes lead you to what you expected.

What disappoints us most in life, is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.

After being disappointed so many times, you start to lose hope in everything.

Disappointments are just God’s way of saying: I have got something better. Be patient, live life and have faith.

Sometimes a plan is just a list of things that don’t happen.

Cut your expectations short lest you wallow in disappointments. But take time to differentiate b/w dreams n expectations or drown in sorrowful displeasure.

I’m never shocked when people let me down nowadays. I just hate the fact that I put myself in a position to be let down in the first place.

I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.
– Julia Glass

If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
– Tonya Hurley

Remember that sometimes no getting what you want, can be the best thing for you.

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

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
– Bernard M. Baruch

Accept the fact that some people didn’t intend to let you down. Their best is just less than you expected.

‘Maturity’ really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
– Alain de Botton

Assuming is the root of all disappointments.
– Rogienel Reyes

Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return.
– Chetan Bhagat

No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
– Jude Morgan

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime’s disappointments.
– Silvia Hartmann

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
– Joseph Addison

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.
– Richelle E. Goodrich

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
– Sylvia Plath

One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
– Henry Ward Beecher

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
– Thomas Fuller

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
– Samuel Johnson

Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.
– Samuel P. Huntington

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
– Daid Rudisha

Disappointment is often the salt of life.
– Theodore Parker

Disappoint anyone, disappoint everyone, just don’t disappoint yourself.

The higher the expectations the higher the disappointment.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
– W.C. Bennett

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
– Imran Khan

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

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

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
– Fred G. Gosman

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder- storm is to the air.
– Schiller

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
– Grahan Greene

Disappointments are just other pieces of the puzzle that makes life complete.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
– Sir Bayle Roche

Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
– L.M. Montgomery

We learn effectively through disappointment, disappointments are eye openers.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunder- storm, always turn sour.
– Randolph

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
– Ambrose Bierce

Disappointment or misfortune don’t last long among us, the poor; we can’t live if we brood on them the whole time.
– Viramma Racine

Life is full of disappointɱents and I just added you to the list.

How Disappointment tracks the steps of Hope!
– L. E. Landon

One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
– Alain de Botton

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
– Imran Khan

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
– Publilius Syrus

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

Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.
– Mike Howerton

Disappointment is as inevitable as hope is necessary.
– Dr. Idel Dreimer

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
– Benjamin Disraeli

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
– Robert Burns

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
– Kaui Hart Hemmings

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
– Edmund Burke

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
– Norman MacDonald

Reduce the risk of disappointments by expecting less.

I’m disappointed, but I’m not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head- butt somebody.
– Greg Norman

We’re raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment.
– Brene Brown

Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very simple: Stand up and walk! Cut the tragedy because our limited time must always be used for the forward movements!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die.
– Chetan Bhagat

Those who crave are sure to take disappointments to their grave.
– RVM

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.
– Arthur Helps

Disappointment’ s cousin is Frustration, the second storm.
– Chetan Bhagat

If you don’t encounter setbacks in your career, if you don’t have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you’re not dreaming big enough.
– Michael Bloomberg

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
– Henry Ward Beecher

A pier is a disappointed bridge.
– Julian Barnes

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
– Eric Hoffer

Develop success from failures. Discouragement,failure and not giving up are three of the surest stepping stones to success.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
– Mason Cooley

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

Never worry about disappointments, they are just life lessons.
– Sipho P Nkosi

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