220 Disappointment Quotes to Conquer Your Emotions

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1. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” –

2. “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.” – Anonymous

3. “Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation.” – Anonymous

4. “The strongest people have a past filled with chaos, heartbreak, and disappointment.” – Anonymous

5. “Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.” – Sir Boyle Roche

6. “One thing that we can determine is how we handle disappointments.” – Reg Morais

7. “Every disappointment has compensation if only a person is quiet and ready to wait.” – Anonymous

8.  “Sometimes, when you get disappointed, it makes you stronger.” – David Rudisha

9. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr

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10. “Things are as they are, we suffer because we imagined different.” – Anonymous

11. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” – Alexander Pope

12. “Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” – W.B. Yeats

13. “It’s amazing how quickly your mood can change, how deep your heart can sink, and how much one person can affect you.” – Anonymous

14. “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.” –

15. “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.” –

16. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” – Ryan Reynolds

17. “If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more life I shall have to wear it off.” –

18. “We must all suffer one of two things—the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” –

19. “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious—both are disappointed.” –

20. “A burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start again after a disappointment.” – Marsha Sinetar 

21. “Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make.” – Charles Stanley

22. “Disappointment is simply a dream that doesn’t want to become a reality.” – Richard Wilkins

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

24. “Most things disappoint till you look deeper.” – Graham Greene

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

26. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” –

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Every disappointment gives you the opportunity to make another appointment.” – B. A. Fajimi

30. “High expectations lead to higher disappointments.” – Anonymous

31. “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

32. “There can be no deep disappointment where there is no deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr

33. “Don’t ever let a bad day make you feel like you’ll have a bad life.” – Anonymous

34. “Disappointment has no place in a heart full of gratitude.” – Anonymous

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

36. “God is the only source of hope that’ll never disappoint.” – Rick Warren

37. “The best way to deal with disappointment is to acknowledge and work through the feelings it induces.” – Noaman Kaysingwala

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

39. “Sometimes, we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.” – Anonymous

40. “It is better to know and be disappointed than to not know and always wonder.” – Oscar Wilde

41. “To courageously straighten up again after our heads have been bowed by defeat, disappointment and suffering is a supreme test of character.” – Wilferd Peterson

42. “Whenever you find that you are deeply disappointed by people, remember that you wouldn’t have been disappointed if you didn’t love them.” – Anonymous

43. “Whenever you face betrayal, take the disappointment away from your heart instantly. This way, you will not have to carry a heavy grudge that ruins the quality of life.” – Anonymous

44. “Quit asking me why I gave up or why I am treating you cold because I am not. I just gave up having expectations that always ended up in disappointments.” – Anonymous

45. “Disappointments are usually a result of actions not reaping the expected returns.” – Anonymous

46. “Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

47. “It’s sad when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.” – Anonymous

48. “Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.” – Joyce Meyer

49. “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” –

50. “Disappointments are just God’s way of saying, ‘I’ve got something better.’ Be patient, live life, have faith.” – Anonymous

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

52. “The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” – Thomas S. Monson

53. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’” –

54. “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

55. “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

56. “Disappointments are part of life. They happen to all people.” – Anonymous

57. “Struggle and disappointment are necessary ingredients to success both in the present and in the future.” – Britney Watkins

58. “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” – P.G. Wodehouse

59. “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

60. “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

61. “Disappointments are not meant to destroy you, they are meant to strengthen you.” – Anonymous

62. “There’s only so many times you can allow someone to let you down before you will no longer tolerate being disappointed. When things go wrong between two people, something has got to give. You get to the point where you get tired of being the only one trying to fix things, it’s not giving up, it’s realizing you had enough. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts.” – Brigitte Nicole

63. “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.” – Anonymous

64. “There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you’ve carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.” – Sarah Dessen

65. “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

66. “Life’s too tough to get to the top without passion. You’re going to fail, be taken advantage of, be disappointed by people you trust, disappoint yourself, run out of resources. Almost every day, you’re going to encounter a good, solid, logical reason why you ought to give up. And without , you just might.” – Zig Ziglar

67. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go—simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – Anonymous 

68. “Each pain makes you stronger, each betrayal more intelligent, every disappointment more skillful and each experience wiser.” – Anonymous

69. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

70. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” –

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

72. “When you don’t get a role or when a relationship ends, with every disappointment—this is worth remembering.” – Anonymous

73. “Never depend on other people to make you happy because you’ll end up being disappointed as expectations always hurt.” – Anonymous

74. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you.” – Anonymous

75. “Disappointment, to a noble soul, is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” – Eliza Tabor

76. “I don’t hate you. I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.” – Anonymous

77. “She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ” – Markus Zusak

78. “Don’t blame people for disappointing you, blame yourself for expecting too much from them.” – Anonymous

79. “The more loyal you are to everyone, the more you will be disappointed with how people are selfish.”– Anonymous

80. “Assuming is the root of all disappointments.” – Rogienel Reyes 

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

82. “When someone disappoints you, there is nothing that can be done but to accept it.” – Anonymous

83. “If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. That way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” – Toba Beta

84. “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

85. “You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.” – Gillian Tans

86. “Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.” – Friedrich Schiller

87. “There is no rush to acquire success. Do not be disappointed that you have not yet reached your potential.” – Anonymous

88. “Disappointment is nothing but an eye-opening learning process for your future endeavors.” – Edmond Mbiaka

89. “Understanding is the key to getting over the disappointment.” – Anonymous

90. “Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.” – Jean Louis Gassee

91. “Never a person that has let you down more than twice. Once was a warning, twice was a lesson, and anything more than that is simply taking advantage.” – Anonymous

92. “Holding on to anger resulting in disappointments is like drinking poison and expecting that other people will die instead.” – Anonymous

93. “One suffers from disappointment, which is to say like every pain, it may be cured.” – Anonymous

94. “Disappointment is a disease that starts with malaise in one’s heart and spreads to those around them.” – Anonymous

95. “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.” –

96. “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” – Kate Chisman

97. “Never touch your idols—the gilding will stick to your fingers.” – Gustave Flaubert 

98. “I think that the only reason why people hold onto memories so tight, for so long is that memories are the only things that don’t change, even when people do.” – Anonymous

99. “You really didn’t see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn’t it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.” – Maggie Stiefvater

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

101. “Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.” – P.G. Wodehouse

102. “After being disappointed so many times, you start to lose hope in everything.” – Anonymous

103. “Getting disappointed is like becoming broke. You invested so much in something and end up with nothing for your troubles.” – Anonymous

104. “Everything you do in life takes you higher. That is why a disappointment of having less than the best hurts like a fall.” – Anonymous

105. “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident, I hit it in the stomach.” – Upton Sinclair

106. “Part of the problem with the word ‘disabilities’ is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted.” – Fred Rogers

107. “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.” – Anonymous

108. “We can be disappointed with the world but it does us no good as the world will revolve despite us not moving.” – Anonymous

109. “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

110. “Only the fear of disappointment will keep one from following through their goals.” – Anonymous

111. “Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.” – Patricia McCormick

112. “Try your best and reach for the stars. But do not try to reach it without stretching or you would be disappointed.” – Anonymous

113. “Success at anything requires two vital ingredients—enthusiasm and perseverance. Both can be helped by the broad view that looks beyond temporary difficulties and disappointments to a great goal.” –

114. “A perfect life is to have expectations without disappointment.” – Anonymous

115. “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.” – Anonymous

116. “Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.” – Rupert Johnson

117. “Perfectionism rarely begets perfection or satisfaction, only disappointment.” – Ryan Holiday

118. “The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” –

119. “I’m sad, , angry, mad, disappointed. But you know what? I will put on a happy face and move on. It will hurt but I will survive.” – Anonymous

120. “You can’t dwell on disappointment. You’ve got to take the positives and keep looking ahead.” – AJ Tracey

121. “It is our fate in life to be disappointed. The human mind is so vast and full of imagination that real life will never live up to its expectations.” – Anonymous

122. “It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.” – Plautus

123. “Disappointment is a quicksand of unreality which does not sink in until you have been sucked in.” – Anonymous

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

125. “Disappointment is an ominous cloud of self-doubt and fear which must be broken through at all costs.” – Anonymous

126. “Expectation is the only seed of disappointment.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

127. “I find that many people are afraid to dream big. They are reluctant to hope for too much because they don’t want to be disappointed. As a result, they satisfy themselves with the mundane.” – John C. Maxwell

128. “One of the best protection against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” – Alain de Botton

129. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” – Kristin Armstrong

130. ​​“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

131. “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.” – Anonymous

132. “Sometimes, we love our children too much that we try to protect them from all the hurts in the world, including disappointment. This is often a disappointment in itself.” – Anonymous

133. “We do not understand it when we first feel disappointment. But in time, it will become an unwanted companion that walks with us through life.” – Anonymous

134. “If a man does not read, he prepares himself for a life full of shocking realities and disappointments.” – Anonymous

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.” – Anonymous

136. “You’re not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that is what happens when disappointment sets in, and you’re willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.” – Karen Salmansohn

137. “Love comes to those who still hope after disappointment, who still believe after betrayal, and who still love after they’ve been hurt.” – Anonymous

138. “The depth of the love of 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

139. “You need to keep your emotions in balance, treading that fine line between commitment to your goals and disappointment when they do not come to fruition, whilst still being optimistic and positive about the future.” – Tom Laurie

140. “A pier is a disappointed bridge.” – Julian Barnes

141. “Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.” – Scott Turow

142. “Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by surprise.” – Pawan Mishra

143. “As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.” –

144. “Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.” – Evan Esar

145. “Suspense is worse than disappointment.” – Robert Burns

146. “You cannot be disappointed by something that doesn’t exist.” – Anonymous

147. “Disappointment builds character and strength.” – Nafessa Williams

148. “How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.” – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

149. “You must, for the sake of your sanity, transcend disappointment.” – Anonymous

150. “It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.” – Anonymous

151. “Life will throw many obstacles onto our life path that will make us sad or disappointed at times. Dealing positively with these obstacles is what makes the difference between them turning into worse states or being overcome.” – Jonny Oates

152. “Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” –

153. “As you work towards your goals, disappointments may slow you down, but they don’t have to keep you down.” – Catherine Pulsifer

154. “Trust turns , abandonment, disappointment, and loneliness into motivations rather than deterrents.” – Iyanla Vanzant

155. “There will be times when your journey will take you off course. Hopefully the fortitude you possess by your self-belief will convert those valleys of disappointment to mountains of satisfaction and be consistent with your personal life objectives.” – Daniel Kulick

156. “You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, ‘I am good enough, I will try again.’”– Lailah Gifty Akita

157. “We do not become masters of our own destiny in a day, nor do we develop the kind of outlook where we can turn negatives into positives, or disappointments into valuable lessons of life, or change adversity into opportunities.” – Catherine Pulsifer

158. “On a larger scale, focus can be seen as a person’s ability to achieve their life goals without falling prey to pitfalls like disappointment, internal and external criticism, and the everyday obstacles that are presented through chance.” – Justin Byers

159. “Disappointment is not the end. A dream, a goal, a friendship may have died, but that’s going to give birth to the new thing God wants to do. God has to shut a door before He can open a new door.” – Anonymous

160. “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

161. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” –

162. “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” – Jane Austen

163. “A true friend will listen to your disappointments, say, ‘I told you so,’ and help you back up.” – Anonymous

164. “Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” –

165. “Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet and I thought it was big.” – Sarah Jessica Parker

166. “Admittedly, I have never experienced a great love or extraordinary friendship, but that is because I never met a man or woman worthy of it.” – Anonymous

167. “Lovers have a right to your friends don’t.” – Anonymous

168. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.” – Haruki Murakami

169. “Friends who tell you that you cannot be a disappointment and should be kept away from them as they are not friends, but doubts in human form.” – Anonymous

170. “It is a gift when someone shares your disappointment. Often, the mere listening of one’s woes is enough to dispel it.” – Anonymous

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

172. “In that moment of disappointment, pause and remember that God has a better plan for you.” – Maria Koszler

173. “You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.” – Vann Chow

174. “Maturity really means being very unsurprised by, and calm around, and disappointment.” – Alain de Botton

175. “You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that is disappointed with you.” – Marty Rubin

176. “The line between madness and reason will always grow thinner if you learn how to take in disappointment, oppressions and hurt.” – Anonymous

177. “It’s easy not to be disappointed when you’re always wading in the shallow end of feelings.” – Maurene Goo

178. “Patience produces character, and character produces hope. And this hope will never disappoint us.” – Romans

179. “To lean one’s hopes on anything other than God and His wondrous grace, is to set oneself up for disappointment and despair.” – John Krohn

180. “It is in the eye of the storm, in the midst of disappointment, that you can experience the beauty of God who turns trials into gold. These times are what I call ‘beautiful disappointments,’ where God reveals himself to us in powerful, life-changing ways.” – Colin McCartney

181. “You can’t please everyone, but you can’t not please everyone either.” – Joyce Rachelle

182. “Our role as leaders is to turn away from our disappointment and abandonment, and give ourselves to those with whom we still have influence.” – Costa Mitchell

183. “Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.” – Martin Freeman

184. “The crushing disappointments that are so often part of the human condition have sometimes led to crises of confidence in the future, replacing hope with despair.” – Al Gore

185. “The importance we give our disappointment is what turns it into a tragedy.” – Nitya Prakash

186. “My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.” – Sara Blakely

187. “Do not dwell on your loss. Look forward with bright new hopes.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

188. “Whenever I experienced some disappointment in my life, it was always laughter that came to my rescue.” – Marty Rubin

189. “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.” – Anonymous

190. “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.” – Anonymous

191. “Disappointment is a terrible feeling where your insides are twisted up so bad that no medicine but time can heal it.” – Anonymous

192. “How do you deal with disappointment? How do you deal with a monster that holds a hammer and is smashing your glass heart to pieces?” – Anonymous

193. “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

194. “Disappointments are a result of failed expectations. To have less disappointments, either expect less from other people or demand more from yourself.” – Kevin Ngo

195. “Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.” – Murray Gell-Mann

196. “Present. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.” – Ambroe Pierce

197. “The simple solution for disappointment and depression—get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.” – Peter McWilliams

198. “Disappointments are everyday cuts that must be taken cared of or else death will come from profuse bleeding of the soul.” – Anonymous

199. “The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” – William Arthur Ward

200. “Disappointment is a beautiful sadness, a fitting end to a tragic tale of expectation.” – Anonymous 

201. “Sometimes, disappointing other people is the only way you can be yourself.” – Nitya Prakash

202. “Hope and expectations are different names for the first part of the path to disappointment.” – Anonymous 

203. “Never stop building toward your dreams. Should there be any disappointments along the way, use them for a sturdier foundation.” – Anonymous

204. “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.” – Anonymous

205. “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.” – Anonymous 

206. “We deal with disappointing and depressing experiences each day of our lives. Rest assured that these difficult times are your opportunity to grow and to learn more advanced strategies in order to scale your next mountain more quickly.” – Michelle C. Ustaszeski

207.“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.” – Anonymous

208. “To grow up is a disappointment, to make the best of it is maturity.” – Anonymous 

209. “You have to think positively. Most of your fears, like thinking that people will be disappointed in you, are just self-created.” – Matthew Lewis Browne

210. “Greet disappointment with cheerfulness. There is nothing like a spring in your step to dispel the ugly gloom.” – Anonymous

211. “When life disappoints—when it batters and bruises us; when we batter and bruise ourselves—God places us in the shadow of his hand to quiet, succor, and strengthen us.” – Judith Couchman

212. “When you have no expectations, you’ll never have disappointments.” – Anonymous

213. “Sometimes, God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.” – Suzy Kassem

214. “Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.” – Ann Patchett

215. “Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is where you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.” – Sherry Argove

216. “Laughter is a cure to the bitter disappointments in life. When you are sad, look for laughter to ease the pain.” – Anonymous

217. “When something different happened, we either expressed our joy or voiced our disappointment at the way things turned out.” – Brian F. Reynolds

218. “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

219. “We all know intuitively that we’re more productive in our careers when we are feeling emotions like happiness, appreciation, enthusiasm and excitement. But if you try to jump from feeling anxious with your current career to being ecstatic about it, then you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.” – Karen Kelloway

220. “If you are someone who is in constant doubt and your life thus far has been a constant string of disappointments, it’s time you stop fixating on doubt and spend your valuable time on building a list of things that make you feel confident and assertive.” – Zak Frazer

221. “A lack of sleep causes stress on our bodies and will eventually lead to burn out or disappointment.” – Josh Austin

222. “I’ve been disappointed so many times, not giving a fuck is almost a flex.” – Anonymous

223. “Like a mortal wound, getting over a disappointment will only make you stronger.” – Anonymous

224. “Save the excuses. It’s not about ‘having time’ it’s about making time. If it matters, you will make time.” – Anonymous

225. “If the only dream we have is of a perfect life, we are doomed to disappointment since such dreams simply cannot come true in the real world.” – Tal Ben-Shahar

226. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” –

227. “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

228. “Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.” – Joel Osteen

229. “Sometimes, just when I think I know people, they disappoint me in ways I never thought they could.” – Anonymous