Best Disappointment Sayings
1191 Disappointment quotes by 861 unique authors
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.
— Frederick William Robertson
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Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.…
— Watchman Nee
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Victory is never won alone.
— Woodrow M. Kroll
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If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
— Charles Spurgeon
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God sees hearts as we see faces.
— George Herbert
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
— Denis Waitley
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
— John Bunyan
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God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like…
— Rick Warren
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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…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
— John H. Johnson
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided…
— Francois Fenelon
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame de Stael
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Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough…
— John Brown
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None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The…
— Bernard Baruch
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The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.
— Gamaliel Bailey
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
— James Drummond Burns
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
— Theodore Parker
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Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
— Boyle Roche
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
— Samuel Johnson
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I need you because I love you.
— Erich Fromm
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