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Disappointment Quotes – Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.
And then you are too much hoping for something without reason that makes you feel disappointed for something or someone. Disappointment may be very painful for some of us.
The exist disappointment usually arises from our expectations of something that causes us to continue expecting more from whatever it is.
Many of us also feel disappointed which starts from the things we want to get, achieve, but never get an answer.
The disappointment sometimes makes yourself hopeless, unmotivated, and self-blame.
But instead of passing through sadness and blaming yourself continuously, maybe the following quotes can be the best friend and best motivation for those of you who may be feeling disappointed and hurt.
Here are 200 disappointment quotes that can inspire and become best friends to motivate those of you who are experiencing excessive and uncontrollable feelings of disappointment within yourself.
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Inspiring Disappointment Quotes As Your Friend
1. “Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
2. “If you expect disappointment, you won’t be disappointed.” – Oli Anderson
3. “Disappointment is a disease that starts with malaise in one’s heart and spreads to those around them” – Unknown
4. “Marriages that end in disappointment happens when each other’s expectations are not put on the table.” – Unknown
5. “Like a mortal wound, getting over a disappointment will only make you stronger.” – Unknown
6. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
7. “Regret is a bedmate of disappointment and is a lethal combination.” – Unknown
8. “Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.” – Friedrich Schiller
9. “The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.” – Peter McWilliams
10. “Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression and then by renewed enthusiasm.” – Murray Gell Mann
11. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” – Kristin Armstrong
12. “Sometimes disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.” – Nitya Prakash
13. “Most empty promises are a result of excitement.” – Thebe Kegomoditswe
14. “Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.” – A.C.H. Smith
15. “Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.” – John C. Maxwell
16. “Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “Disappointment focuses on “what is not” and completely misses the far greater reality of “what now is”.” – Unknown
18. “You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.” – AJ Tracey
19. “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” – Unknown
20. “Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.” – Unknown
21. “Do not get discouraged nor disheartened in moment of the disappointment.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
22. “I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.” – Eleanor Catton
23. “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” – Conan O’Brien
24. “Disappointment is an ominous cloud of self-doubt and fear which must be broken through at all costs.” – Unknown
25. “Don’t care for the expectations of others on yourself for their disappointment will unfairly weigh on you.” – Unknown
26. “When presenting yourself to the world, always show confidence. People are more excited with the prospect of something curious than be turned off by a forecasted disappointment.” – Unknown
27. “Disappointment is a quicksand of unreality which does not sink in until you have been sucked in.” – Unknown
28. “No matter how much in love you are, in the end, you are disappointed by either a flamed out affair or until death does you part.” – Unknown
29. “We can be disappointed with the world but it does us no good as the world will revolve despite us not moving.” – Unknown
30. “When you work so hard and get back so little is a soul crushing disappointment that must be shelved in order to make life go on.” – Unknown
31. “Parents ought to teach children how to deal with disappointment and stress. I think the world would be better off full of dysfunctional happy people than those who become disruptive.” – Unknown
32. “Sometimes we love our children too much that we try protect them from all the hurts in the world, including disappointment. This is often a disappointment in itself.” – Unknown
33. “I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, disappointed. But you know what? I will put on a happy face and move on. It will hurt but I will survive.” – Unknown
34. “It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.” – Unknown
35. “It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.” – Unknown
36. “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
37. “Disappointments are just God’s way to saying ‘I’ve got something better’. Be patient, live life, have faith.” – Unknown
38. “Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.” – Eric Hoffer
39. “After being disappointed so many times, you start to lose hope in everything.” – Unknown
40. “Most things disappoint till you look deeper.” – Graham Greene
41. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
42. “There will be disappointments in life. It’s okay to feel sad. Just don’t wallow for longer than necessary.” – Unknown
43. “Disappointments are just God’s way of saying “I’ve got something better”. Be patient, live life, have faith.” – Unknown
44. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Martin Luther King Jr.” – Unknown
45. “Sometimes the biggest disappointment leads you to the right place.” – Carey Graeber
46. “Don’t let today’s disappointment cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dream.” – Unknown
47. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” – Kristin Armstrong
48. “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” – Alain de Botton
49. “Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
50. “Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.” – Pawan Mishra
51. “In that moment of disappointment, pause and remember that GOD has a better plan for you.” – Maria Koszler
52. “The importance we give our disappointment is what turns it into a tragedy.” – Nitya Prakash
53. “It’s easy not to be disappointed when you’re always wading in the shallow end of feelings.” – Maurene Goo
54. “Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.” – Graham Greene
55. “You can’t please everyone, but you can’t not please everyone either.” – Joyce Rachelle
56. “Sometimes disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.” – Nitya Prakash
57. “Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
58. “You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.” – Vann Chow
59. “You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that’ is disappointed with you.” – Marty Rubin
60. “Whenever I experienced some disappointment in my life, it was always laughter that came to my rescue.” – Marty Rubin
61. “Maturity’ really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.” – Alain de Botton
62. “Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
63. “Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
64. “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” – W.B. Yeats
65. “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.” – Unknown
66. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Bayle Roche
65. “It’s amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink, and how much one person can affect you.” – Unknown
66. “Things are as they are, we suffer because we imagined different.” – Unknown
67. “Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” – David Rudisha
68. “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes
69. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
70. “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.” – Unknown
71. “Suspense is worse than disappointment.” – Robert Burns
72. “Sometimes you don’t need to hear their excuses or what they have to say for themselves because their actions already spoke the truth.” – Unknown
73. “It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn’t have something in the first place. I guess that’s what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.” – Deb Caletti, the Nature of Jade
74. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – Unknown
75. “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
76. “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
77. “Disappointment has no place in a heart full of gratitude.” – Unknown
78. “Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.” – Unknown
79. “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes
80. “Sometimes when you get disappointed it makes you stronger.” – David Rudisha
81. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Bayle Roche
82. “The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” – William Arthur Ward
83. “Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.” – Robin Sharma
84. “Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.” – Ilona Andrews
85. “Disappointment is simply a dream that doesn’t want to become a reality.” – Richard Wilkins
86. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr
87. “Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
88. “Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.” – Unknown
89. “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.” – Unknown
90. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Bayle Roche
91. “It’s amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink, and how much one person can affect you.” – Unknown
92. “Things are as they are, we suffer because we imagined different.” – Unknown
93. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
94. “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
95. “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
96. “Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.” – David Rudisha
97. “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes
98. “It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn’t have something in the first place. I guess that’s what disappointment is a sense of loss for something you never had.” – Deb Caletti, the Nature of Jade
99. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – Unknown
100. “Disappointments are not meant to destroy you; they are meant to strengthen you.” – Unknown
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101. “Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.” – Mason Cooley
102. “Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment.” – Chogyam Trungpa
103. “If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath
104. “Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunder- storm, always turn sour.” – Randolph
105. “Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.” – Laura Schlessinger
106. “Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.” – Kazuaki Tanahashi
107. “I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.” – Mary Russell Mitford
108. “Show business is made up of disappointments, and it’s through life’s disappointments that you grow.” – Minnie Pearl
109. “Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.” – Daisaku Ikeda
110. “Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
111. “In life we have many disappointments. Those who go on to greater things dwell on the disappointments briefly and then move on.” – Zig Ziglar
112. “Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken.” – Mason Cooley
113. “When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.” – Ligon Duncan
114. “Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.” – Norm MacDonald
115. “Suspense is worse than disappointment.” – Robert Burns
116. “Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.” – George Foreman
117. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
118. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
119. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
120. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
121. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”- David Richo
122. “Some of my “best friends” never say a word to me.” – Emily Smallmon
123. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
124. “You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” – Sophie Kinsella
125. “Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow.” – Shizra
126. “Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
127. “Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence.”
– Emma Xu
128. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – Unknown
129. “Disappointments are not meant to destroy you; they are meant to strengthen you.” – Unknown
130 “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” – Unknown
131. “Hope, but never expect. Look forward, but never wait.” – Unknown
132. “One of the worst feelings in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable.” – Unknown
133. “Disappointment is a beautiful sadness, a fitting end to a tragic tale of expectation.” – Unknown
134. “We run with the desire to fulfill that which is written in our destinies with the spikes and warnings of disappointment and regret lurking beneath.” – Unknown
135. “At the end of a love affair or a job, test how deep your disappointment is and be merry. For if it is deep, it means you have invested in it fully, and if it is shallow, you can easily move on.” – Unknown
136. “Hope and expectations are different names for the first part of the path to disappointment.” – Unknown
137. “Never stop building toward your dreams. Should there be any disappointments along the way, use them for a sturdier foundation.” – Unknown
138. “If your purpose is just discovery, never commit. This is a path that would lead to disappointment.” – Unknown
139. “A cynic is someone who’s had his dreams shattered by the realities of disappointment.” – Unknown
140. “You can’t really disappoint yourself. You can do stupid stuff that can lead you to bad consequences, but knowing that you are who you are can ease the pain.” – Unknown
141. “Choosing a path to follow and getting lost is a common occurrence for people. Do not be disappointed with your human frailty.” – Unknown
142. “It is the fear to cause disappointments that leads to it. Such is the irony of life.” – Unknown
143. “You can hate life and be done with it, but it is an underlying fear of disappointment that causes you to do so. Look for the light in your soul to free you from this prison.” – Unknown
144. “We simultaneously feel relieved and disappointed when someone sees through our facade and sets us straight.” – Unknown
145. “It is a gift when someone shares your disappointment. Often, the mere listening of one’s woes is enough to dispel it.” – Unknown
146. “We are our own sculptors. We chisel away to create our life’s work but sit down in disappointment when a part is not properly done. Remember, it is a work in progress, there is still much to do.” – Unknown
147. “A disappointment is merely an assignment for your next appointment.”- Kayambila Mpulamasaka
148. “Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.”- Pawan Mishra
149. “The best way to deal with disappointment is to acknowledge and work through the feelings it induces.” – Noaman Kaysingwala
150. “The importance we give our disappointment is what turns it into a tragedy.”- Nitya Prakash
151. “It’s easy not to be disappointed when you’re always wading in the shallow end of feelings.”- Maurene Goo
152. “Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible.”- Graham Greene
153. “You can’t please everyone, but you can’t not please everyone either.”
– Joyce Rachelle
154. “Sometimes disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.”- Nitya Prakash
155. “Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
156. “You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.” – Vann Chow
157. “You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that’ is disappointed with you.”- Marty Rubin
158. “Whenever I experienced some disappointment in my life, it was always laughter that came to my rescue.” – Marty Rubin
159. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
160. “Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.”- Lailah Gifty Akita
161. “Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
162. “See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation.” – Jean Cocteau
163. “There’s always a failure. And there’s always a disappointment. But the secret is learning from failure, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.” – Michael J. Fox
164. “In the midst of my disappointment I am never defeated. Only given the opportunity to rise again willing to take on new challenges.” – Eleesha
165. “Disappointments pile up. And then you have to throw them out with the rest of the trash.” – Marty Rubin
166. “The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.” – Benjamin Disraeli
167. “Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.” – Oscar Wilde
168. “I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.” – Julia Glass
169. “Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.” – Murray Gell-Mann
170. “Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.” – W.C. Bennett
171. “The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.” – Publilius Syrus
172. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Bayle Roche
173. “Don’t care for the expectations of others on yourself for their disappointment will unfairly weigh on you.” – Unknown
174. “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes
175. “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher
176. “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
177. “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
178. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.”- Gugu Mofokeng
179. “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” – William Shakespeare
180. “When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.” – Carol Burnett
181. “When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” – Joyce Meyer
182. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
183. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
184. “Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
185. “Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” – Anne Lamott
186. “Marriages that end in disappointment happens when each other’s expectations are not put on the table.” – Unknown
187. “Disappointment is a troll that follows you around the house, cluttering things you have put in order, moving the things you need around, and generally disrupting life. Best way to get rid of this pest is to face it head on and tell it to go away before it multiplies.” – Unknown
188. “Children are often disappointed with their lot in life and suffer the injustice at living when they did not ask to be born.” – Unknown
189. “When suffering a blow of disappointment, take time to heal one’s wounds. One can go on, surely, but without the strength necessary to succeed.” – Unknown
190. “To grow up is a disappointment, to make the best of it is maturity.” – Unknown
191. “Laughter is a cure to the bitter disappointments in life. When you are sad, look for laughter to ease the pain.” – Unknown
192. “Beauty can cause disappointment for if there is no substance beneath, the image becomes nothing but an empty picture.” – Unknown
193. “Greet disappointment with cheerfulness. There is nothing like a spring in your step to dispel the ugly gloom.” – Unknown
194. “Do not believe others when they say they love you. If you do not see the actions with your own eyes, you shall experience disappointment.” – Unknown
195. “Friends who tell you that you cannot are a disappointment and should be kept away from as they are not friends, but doubts in human form.” – Unknown
196. “There is no rush to acquire success. Do not be disappointed that you have not yet reached your potential.” – Unknown
197. “One suffers from disappointment, which is to say like every pain, it may be cured.” – Unknown
198. “Once cannot feel true disappointment until the very end, and even then, it is only another beginning.” – Unknown
199. “Save the excuses. It’s not about ‘having time’ it’s about making time. If it matters, you will make time.” – Unknown
200. “Everything you do in life takes you higher. That is why a disappointment of having less than the best hurts like a fall.” – Unknown
Those 200 disappointment quotes that hopefully can be motivational and after reading this you can inspire and make yourself and your mind better.