1. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

- Alexander Pope

2. We’ve all experienced change for a moment, only to feel let down and disappointed in the end.

- Tony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

3. Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

- Joyce Meyer

4. He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

- P.G. Woodhouse

5. 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

6. Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

- Martin Freeman

7. When you have no expectations, you’ll never have disappointments.

- Unknown

8. God is the only source of hope that’ll never disappoint.

- Rick Warren

9. 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.

- Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

10. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. 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

12. As you work towards your goals, disappointments may slow you down, but they don’t have to keep you down.

- Catherine Pulsifer

13. See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation.

- Jean Cocteau

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. 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

16. Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

- David Rushida

17. Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

- Sir Boyle Roche

18. 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

19. Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

- Ambrose Pierce

20. God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

- Henry Ward Beecher

21. The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

- Peter McWilliams

22. Forget yesterday and last month and last year, with their gloomy diary of failures and disappointments. All that is in the past.

- Og Mandino, Og Mandino’s University of Success

23. Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.

- Evan Esar

24. Life is all about setbacks. A life lived without disappointment is a life lived in a cocoon. People have recovered from far worse setbacks.

- Tony Clark

25. Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have less disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.

- Kevin Ngo

26. The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

- Fred G. Gosman

27. To courageously straighten up again after our heads have been bowed by defeat, disappointment and suffering is a supreme test of character.

- Wilferd Peterson

28. Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

- Murray Gell-Mann

29. ?I guess that’s what disappointment is — a sense of loss for something you never had.

- Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

30. 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

31. 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

32. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

33. 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

34. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Jim Rohn

36. If you put in little effort and expect big returns, you will be deeply disappointed. You don’t get apples by planting lemon seeds.

- Catherine Pulsifer

37. A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

38. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

- Les Brown

39. Anger is more constructive than despair.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 3: Rise of the M

40. Maturity’ really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

- Alain de Botton

41. We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

- Norman Macdonald

42. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

- Henry David Thoreau

43. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

- Kurt Vonnegut

44. 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

45. In the midst of my disappointment I am never defeated. Only given the opportunity to rise again willing to take on new challenges.

- Eleesha

46. 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

47. Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace – we have to give it away.

- Kristin Armstrong

48. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.

- Gillan Tans

49. When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

- Kristin Armstrong

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

- Thomas Hardy

51. Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

- John Barrow

52. 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

53. Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

- Benjamin Franklin

54. Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make.

- Charles Stanley

55. 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

56. Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

- Joel Osteen

57. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

- Thomas S. Monson

58. Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment.

- Ryan Holiday

59. Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.

- Eliza Tabor

60. Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.

- Evan Esar

61. If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.

- Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

62. I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

- Seamus Heaney

63. It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

- Plautus

64. People and events don’t disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

- Stephan Zweig, Chess Story

65. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

- Conan O’Brien

66. The best way to deal with disappointment is to acknowledge and work through the feelings it induces.

- Noaman Kaysingwala, How to Handle Disappointment I

67. 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

68. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

- Beverly Sills

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

- Eric Hoffer

70. It is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

- Oscar Wilde

71. Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

72. Sometimes Good Things Fall Apart So Better Things Can Fall Together.

- Marilyn Monroe