Advantage Quote by William Penn

“Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Could we live for heaven to such a degree that we could rise above the disappointment here?”

— Mark A. Paustian

“I believe that most of us construct a merciful deception between ourselves and the consequences of our existence in order that we do not…

— Patricia J. McLean

“When you eagerly depend upon the Lord for any provision, you eliminate all odds of disappointment.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that…

— Alfred Hayes

“Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may…

— Hasan al-Basri

“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first,…

— Robin Hobb

“Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise.…

— Thomas Gray

“If a man thinks only of his own profit, and tries to benefit himself at the expense of others, he will incur the hatred…

— Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Me, on whom, in case of failure — which Heaven forefend! —”

— Walter Scott

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”

— Isaac Asimov