source: "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Empowering Women, Trying Something New

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

- Patricia McCormick

source: Patricia McCormick (2011). “Cut”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Disappointment, Expectations, Looks, Disappointment In Friends, Disappointment Love

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

source: Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.105

topic: Success, Disappointment, Loss, Disappointment In Friends, Disappointment Love

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

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.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Failure, Best Success, Disappointment In Friends

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

topic: Disappointment, Perfect, Expectations, Life Disappointment, Disappointment In Friends

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

topic: Disappointment, Men, Disappointed, Disappointed Love, Life Disappointment

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Growing Up, Cats Cradle, Disappointment In Friends

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

- Margaret of Valois

source: "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

topic: Disappointment, Men, Suffering, Credulity, Disappointment Love

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

topic: Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss, Disappointment Love

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

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Dream, Life Disappointment, Success Is Measured

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

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Disappointment, Disappointed Love, Life Disappointment

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

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.116

topic: Disappointment, Wish, Pleasure, Disappointment In Friends, Disappointment Love

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hope, Disappointment, Eternity, Dividing, Disappointment In Friends

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

- Murray Gell-Mann

topic: Depression, Disappointment, Enthusiasm, Life Disappointment, Disappointment In Friends

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.

- Guy Sajer

topic: Disappointment, War, Order, Disappointment Love, Preconceptions

People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!

- William Hazlitt