Disappointment Quotes: Navigating the Challenges of Letdowns
Disappointment is a universal experience that can arise from unmet expectations, setbacks, or failed endeavors. These quotes delve into the theme of disappointment and offer insights on how to navigate and overcome its challenges. They provide perspectives on embracing resilience, finding growth in adversity, and maintaining hope even in the face of letdowns. Whether you are currently experiencing disappointment or seeking inspiration to overcome past disappointments, these quotes serve as reminders that disappointment is a natural part of life’s journey and can be a catalyst for personal growth and renewed determination.
Embracing Resilience
Disappointment can test our resilience and inner strength. These quotes emphasize the importance of bouncing back from disappointments and persevering in the face of adversity. They highlight the power of resilience, reminding us that setbacks and letdowns do not define us but rather shape us into stronger individuals. These quotes inspire us to embrace resilience as a means to overcome disappointment and to continue moving forward with determination and courage.
Finding Growth in Adversity
Disappointment often presents an opportunity for growth and self-reflection. These quotes explore the idea that disappointment can be a catalyst for personal development and learning. They encourage us to see setbacks as stepping stones toward a better future, reminding us that failure is not the end but rather a chance to learn, adapt, and improve. These quotes inspire us to view disappointment as a transformative experience, fueling our growth and shaping our character.
Maintaining Hope
In times of disappointment, it can be challenging to maintain hope and optimism. These quotes remind us of the power of hope and the importance of holding onto it, even in the face of disappointment. They encourage us to see setbacks as temporary and to believe in the possibility of better outcomes. These quotes inspire us to cultivate a positive mindset and to keep striving towards our goals, knowing that disappointment is not a permanent state but a stepping stone on the path to success.
Embracing Change and Acceptance
Disappointment often arises when reality doesn’t align with our expectations. These quotes explore the idea of embracing change and accepting that life doesn’t always go as planned. They encourage us to adapt to new circumstances, let go of rigid expectations, and find peace in accepting things as they are. These quotes inspire us to cultivate a flexible mindset, allowing us to navigate disappointment with grace and open ourselves up to new possibilities.
To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.
Hector Bellerin
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Rosa Parks
Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
Shimon Peres
Political ignorance helps explain Americans’ perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
George Will
Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected – whether it’s movies or people or relationships. I’m always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.
Brian Grazer
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski
My first biography written in ’73 was not ‘Journey To The Moon.’ It was ‘Return To Earth.’ Because for me, that was the more difficult task – disappointment.
Buzz Aldrin
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
Mark Goulston
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Pico Iyer
I’m forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look in my father’s eyes went from disappointment to respect.
George Pelecanos
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
Chiang Kai-shek
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
Tiger Woods
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don’t be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.
Robin S. Sharma
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.
Simon Newcomb
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
Eric Kandel
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Jurgen Habermas
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
Bruno Bettelheim
I’m talking to anyone who has been dumped – have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
Jill Abramson
I’m sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn’t Errol Flynn. But I’m me. I think that’s got some merit.
Orlando Bloom
When too many Americans don’t vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
Paul Wellstone
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
I’m not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I’ll be funny in real life. It’s the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
The MLS Cup is always the goal. If we don’t win that, it’s always a disappointment and we haven’t won. No matter how well you do in the regular season, it’s always seen as a failure.
Bradley Wright-Phillips
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.
Sabrina Claudio
If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman’s journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.
Luke Hemsworth
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence Housman
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
David A. Bednar
Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.
Paul Cellucci
I would probably confess that I was the greatest disappointment of my mother’s life, but my father only admired his son’s moxie, drive, hustle, and wherewithal to pursue his dreams no matter how I achieve them.
Paul Heyman
Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.
Evan Esar
When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
Carol Burnett
Being vice-captain at Chelsea, I’ve learned to manage my emotions better this season and have matured massively, but part of that is embracing those feelings of disappointment rather than suppressing them and pretending everything is OK.
Millie Bright
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
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.
Tim O’Brien
For many progressives, 2016 will go down as a year of electoral shocks and profound disappointment. In the U.S., France and many other parts of Europe, the right enters 2017 with newfound confidence while the left recoils in fear of the future, unsure how to get back on the front foot.
Keir Starmer
There will always be a sense of things you want to achieve, where you want to be, a sense of disappointment, a few regrets here and there. Those are always going to linger. How you cope with them and how you move on is what your life is about.
Arbaaz Khan
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
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
Dani Shapiro
I’ve often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In fact, no one’s even sure which island Columbus first encountered (there are three candidates). It’s a pity, a disappointment, and a lost revenue source for the Bahamians.
Seth Shostak
The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn’t created enough jobs, and it hasn’t produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.
George Packer
I’ve always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
Jermain Defoe
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
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 honoured, 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
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Jack Levine
I’ve been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they’re a subsidiary.
Jalen Rose
Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.
Mathew Knowles
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it’s always going to be the same.
Mel Gibson
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being ‘spend cash mon-nay’ rather than execute the Constitution.
Dana Loesch
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
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
I’ve never been troubled by disappointment, and I get over it quickly. But I’m not good at making plans, and I don’t have any ambitions. I never did.
Ian Gillan
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns
Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going – but not If people boo, ’cause that’s just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
Sia
I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
Saina Nehwal
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Life’s not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you’re young: you’ve got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far greater; your sense of success is overwhelming. And then you’ve got the emotional conflict within any group that you’re not mature enough to deal with until you get older. It levels out.
Ian Gillan
The one major disappointment I have is that I didn’t get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
David Gower
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn’t get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
John Surtees
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
When you lose a game or don’t play well you can’t wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.
Ryan Giggs
There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.
Jane Hamilton
My parents were disappointed I didn’t finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
George Clooney
Ronnie is the greatest player to have ever picked up a snooker cue. People have said that about me. But although I won 50 or so tournaments I never picked up the world championship. That was a little bit of a disappointment.
Jimmy White
None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100% in charge of how we respond to challenges that come our way, be it the loss of a job, a career derailment, or some other disappointment.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.
I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I’m always going back in time.
Dara Horn
I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare.
John Mayer
There’s a disappointment there because I still feel there’s an emptiness in my career that just wasn’t filled.
Alonzo Mourning
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it’s a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that’s just the basic gist of it… The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage – you’re on your way.
Samoa Joe
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
Sammy Hagar
At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.
Ruben Blades
There’s always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.
Deborah Wiles
My fear is of the message we put out to millions of voters is that if change is not initiated through the ballot box, then they may regard disappointment in that as a trigger to initiate other methods of change.
James Cleverly
I don’t think there’s any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn’t go my way was a learning experience.
Ali Krieger
It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You’ve just got to get up and keep moving.
MyKayla Skinner
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
You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.
AJ Tracey
You have to be able to bounce back and deal with disappointment, failure and weaknesses, and a lot of that happens behind the scenes for teams that are very successful.
Maya Moore
I typically don’t get into predicting the success of my projects. I’ve been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.
Bokeem Woodbine
Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Emma Willard
Over the course of six amateur fights and two professional fights I learned a lot about how to get things done, how to pick myself up after disappointment, how to work through frustration and how to process moments of success.
Sharice Davids
With Barca, we won the Champions League after many years of disappointment, and the fans went delirious.
Samuel Eto’o
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
Rosa Parks
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman
A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin
I was a disappointment to my parents before I drew my first breath. After five boys, they had been praying for a girl and were convinced their prayers would be answered. So when Dad rang the hospital from a public phone and heard about my arrival, he started kicking and punching the kiosk.
Nigel Benn
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
My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.
Fred Haise
I love Chicago, but in a lot of ways it’s a disappointment. You can work there for years and years, and because you’re in Chicago, you don’t get the recognition. It has some of the best theater in the country, but when they shoot a movie there, they bring in all their actors.
John Malkovich
No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn’t manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should’ve done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
Christian Bale
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals – and even heads of state – they all say: ‘Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.’
Wole Soyinka
When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game’s over.
Mary Schmich
Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.
Evan Esar
As you get older, you do reflect more. They were great times, but the biggest thing we all had to deal with a lot more disappointment from an engineering point of view, there was not the reliability that there is now.
Nigel Mansell
I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare.
John Mayer
There’s a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.
Joe Flacco
Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.
Conchita Wurst
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.
Greg Ginn
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.
Peter Ackroyd
What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I’ve already done.
Robert Wyatt
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
Shane Claiborne
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 think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
Seamus Heaney
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
Stefan Zweig
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
Laurence Olivier
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it’s the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don’t deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I’ve had to open up to grief in different contexts.
Tori Amos
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there’s also disappointment that comes along the way. So it becomes about how you deal with the ups and downs.
Martin Brodeur
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.
Frank Luntz
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons – as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.
Chris Sarandon
I often feel I’m a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I’m not at all.
Bill Bryson
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
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
David Rudisha
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell
The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer.
Harry Maguire
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’m interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or ‘explains,’ the larger mysteries of religion.
Ben Marcus
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Euripides
The more you expect out of a person, place or party, the higher your chances of disappointment.
Shweta Bachchan Nanda
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
In a sense, human beings are human beings. Their feelings of aloneness, of brokenness, their feelings of hurt and disappointment, are universal. It’s the ways they choose to act on their feelings that separates them.
David Harbour
My biggest disappointment is that once I’m finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
Kimberly Willis Holt
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It’s something we are all too familiar with.
Martin Freeman
Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.
Isabella Bird
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
Mary Douglas
Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don’t be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about.
Paula Creamer
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
All my life, I never gave up on music and though there was a lot of disappointment for some that the commercial thing never happened, it has never been a disappointment for me.
Sixto Rodriguez
Under-mature beef with no fat through the meat will be a dry and tasteless disappointment and you will get little yield from it.
John Torode
When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.
John Banville
The worst career advice is to just do something because it’s paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I’ve had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.
Melina Matsoukas
Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.
Stockard Channing
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
William Howard Taft
To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment – especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan
You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.
AJ Tracey
The disappointment of losing is huge.
Jack Youngblood
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
Thomas Frank
I think It’s a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people’s Golden Age of music is still the ’60s.
Jonny Greenwood
I always felt capable of playing at the highest level. The biggest disappointment is that I’ve had a lot of injuries.
Lee Cattermole
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
Rufus Sewell
Thank you for reminding Canada that I’m a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I’m not an avid hockey – let’s face it, true Canadian – fan. I’ve always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I’m not crazy about hockey – but love it!
Dustin Milligan
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
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
David Wain
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn’t really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment – trying to be feminists and failing to be.
Romola Garai
‘Livin’ on the Fault Line’ was kind of a commercial disappointment for us, although it seemed to have a certain buzz with the smaller fan base we had.
Michael McDonald
You know how hard you work. You know what you put into it. You want to win more than anything else. So the disappointment at the end is not because of anything other than being frustrated with yourself.
Chris Hoy
For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a ‘cognitive opening’ to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss.
Peter Bergen
I’m obviously aware that Germany’s head-to-head record with Italy is not particularly positive. I myself have memories from a few previous encounters. I was 11 years old for the 2006 disappointment and the 2012 match is obviously much fresher in my memory.
Joshua Kimmich
We’re so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we’re inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
LZ Granderson
I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.
Jensen Huang
Discord or jealousy inhibits the ability of the Holy Ghost to teach us and inhibits our ability to receive light and truth. And the feelings of disappointment that invariably follow are the seeds of greater discord and faultfinding among those who expected a learning experience that did not come.
Henry B. Eyring
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
The reality of going to the Super Bowl was beyond words, as was the disappointment of falling short.
Greg Olsen
Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.
Peggy Noonan
I don’t know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don’t deal well with disappointment.
Peter Steele
I have never played a Test match at the Eden… It’s such a big shame and disappointment.
Brian Lara
I don’t think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Martin Freeman
Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.
Steph Houghton
If you’re at school, children who play football, you give everything to win… If you don’t succeed, that’s a huge disappointment. Then it’s okay to be sad, but better times are coming.
Arjen Robben
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
Haley Joel Osment
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Eric Hoffer
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
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
Fred G. Gosman
And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that’s when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That’s actually a disappointment.
Randy Moss
Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there’s a great disappointment that he’s playing the same game as his father.
Barbara Demick
I believe the people of Arizona and the people of America are fed up with the federal government. The bottom line is, is that they need to secure our borders. And in regards to Senate Bill 1070, what a disappointment! It hasn’t been divisive; it has united Arizona! It has united America!
Jan Brewer
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
For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don’t have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That’s not what I think; that’s what married people think.
Lewis Black
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
Monica Lewinsky
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
May these disappointment quotes offer solace, inspiration, and guidance as you navigate the challenges of letdowns. Let them remind you that disappointment is a natural part of life and can serve as a catalyst for growth and resilience. Embrace the lessons, find strength in adversity, and maintain hope as you continue on your journey. Remember, disappointments may be temporary, but your determination and resilience are enduring qualities that will guide you towards a brighter future.