Quotes about Disappointment

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

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

God says that he will give you grace to handle the disappointments that lie ahead; your task is to live for him in the present. At first, this feels reckless, as if you were enjoying the thrill of a speeding car when you are courting devastation at the next turn. But it isn't reckless to trust in God rather than yourself.

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.