50 Inspirational Quotes About Disappointment to Lift Your Spirits

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Disappointment is a sign that you are growing and evolving. Embrace it, for it is an essential part of the journey towards self-discovery."

- Paulo Coelho

"Disappointment is a stepping stone to resilience. It toughens you up and prepares you for the challenges that lie ahead."

- Michelle Obama

"Disappointment is a reminder that life doesn’t always go as planned. Embrace the uncertainty, for it is what makes the journey worthwhile."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Disappointment is the price we pay for setting our sights too low."

- Elizabeth George

"When disappointment knocks on your door, greet it with gratitude, for it reveals the gaps that need to be filled in order to grow."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Disappointment is a powerful teacher. It reminds us to reassess our expectations and find strength in resilience."

- Brené Brown

"Disappointment teaches us that life is full of surprises and unpredictability. Embrace the unknown, for it holds the potential for extraordinary experiences."

- Rumi

"Disappointment can be a blessing in disguise. It often leads us to something better than what we had originally hoped for."

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"The only real disappointment in life is the failure to try."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Disappointment is an invitation to redefine what truly matters to you. Use it to align your actions with your core values."

- Simon Sinek

"Disappointment is the bridge between expectations and reality. Learn to cross it gracefully, for it leads to personal growth and wisdom."

- Dalai Lama

"Disappointment is simply the universe redirecting us towards our true path. Trust in the process and the lessons it brings."

- Deepak Chopra

"Disappointment is a sign that you have dared to dream. Don’t let it discourage you; let it fuel your determination to turn your dreams into reality."

- Tony Robbins

"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.

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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.”"

- Joel Osteen

"Disappointment is a temporary detour on the road to success."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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."

- Paulo Coelho

"The greater your expectations, the greater your disappointment."

- Sheryl Crow

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won‘t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"We must accept the finite disappointment, but in spite of this we must maintain the infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

- Paulo Coelho

"We Must Accept Finite Disappointment, but Never Lose Infinite Hope"

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Expectation is the only seed of disappointment."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

- William Shakespeare

"Sometimes, the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us."

- Nicole Reed

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it."

- Eliza Tabor

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind."

- Stephen King

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

- Thomas Hardy

"Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice."

- Charles Stanley

"Remember that sometimes, not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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 in again after a disappointment."

- Marsha Sinetar

"Disappointment proves that expectations were mistaken."

- Mason Cooley

"When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment."

- Ryan Reynolds

"I don’t have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."

- Michael Landon

"Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.’"

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root."

- Toba Beta

"When you go through a disappointment, when you go through a loss, don’t stop on that page. Keep moving forward."

- Joel Osteen

"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."

- Brigitte Nicole

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

- Frida Kahlo

"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"I still take failure very seriously, but I’ve found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working."

- Denton Cooley, M.D.

"Disappointment is an opportunity to dig deeper within yourself and discover the strength to persevere."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities."

- W.E.B. Dubois

"Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you."

- M.B. Whitman

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"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

"The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality."

- Conan O’Brien

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"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

"One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life."

- Joyce Meyer

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"Your past does not equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place."

- Lance Armstrong

"Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street."

- William Arthur Ward

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically."

- Joel Osteen

"Healing never came when I clawed in search of it. Instead, it came when I was willing to listen to the lesson the pain was here to teach me."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

- William Ellery Channing

"If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside."

- Julie Andrews Edwards

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom."

- Sir Boyle Roche

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy—the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

- Sylvia Plath

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

- Beverly Sills

"Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth."

- Eckhart Tolle

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

- Fred Rogers

"Disappointment is a sign that you had expectations; it’s a sign that something didn’t turn out the way you had hoped. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing."

- Mel Robbins

"Disappointment is just the initial shock of the universe reminding you that life doesn’t always go according to plan."

- Sarah Dessen

"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

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

- Alexander Pope

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

- Patricia McCormick

"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

- Eric Hoffer

"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."

- Alain de Botton

"Disappointment is anger for wimps."

- Miles Davis

"Disappointment is a part of life; disillusionment is a lesson in life."

- Joel Burcat

"It’s hard to fail, but it’s worse never to have tried to succeed."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Most things disappoint till you look deeper."

- Graham Greene

"Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons."

- Abigail Adams

"Assuming is the root of all disappointments."

- Rogienel Reyes

"There is no love of life without despair of life."

- Albert Camus

"Despair is an aspect of spirit, it has to do with the eternal in a person."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."

- L. M. Montgomery

"Life is full of disappointment, and I’m full of life."

- Robert Byrne

"Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- LAO TZU

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

- Marcel Proust

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

- Jane Austen

"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."

- Voltaire

"Disappointments are to the soul what the thunderstorm is to the air."

- Friedrich Schiller

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

- Matthew 5:4

"Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious."

- Norm MacDonald

"By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires."

- Tom Robbins

"Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment."

- Patrick Lencioni

"We are never disappointed with people we think little of, those who disappoint us are thus by definition of importance to us."

- Lamine Pearlheart

"Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

"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

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

- Murray Gell-Mann

"Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment."

- Conchita Wurst

"When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement."

- Joyce Meyer

"When you depend on another’s perceptions to match your expectations, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment."

- David Cottrell

"There is no disappointment so numbing as someone not showing up, and there is no satisfaction as sweet as having someone make way for you."

- Amy Poehler

"When your day is a museum of disappointments, hanging from events that were outside of your control, when you feel like your guardian angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago and just decided not to tell you."

- Rudy Francisco

"Friendship withers at the presence of betrayal."

- Toba Beta

"Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain."

- Bob Dylan

"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

"Evil lurks where disappointment lodges."

- George Foreman

"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

"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

"The ideal and the reality don’t always match up."

- Richard Preston

"or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment."

- Marsha Sinetar

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

- Ambrose Bierce

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

- Oscar Wilde

"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

- Robert Burns

"The Greater the Obstacle, the More Glory in Overcoming It"

"Smooth Seas do Not Make Skillful Sailors"

"Disappointments are just God’s way of saying, ‘I’ve got something better.’ Be patient, live life, and have faith."

"Disappointment is an ominous cloud of self-doubt and fear which must be broken through at all costs."

"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."

- Unknown

"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."

- Unknown

"Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you."

- Unknown

"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."

- Unknown

"Greet disappointment with cheerfulness. There is nothing like a spring in your step to dispel the ugly gloom."

- Unknown

"Sometimes we love our children too much that we try protect them from all the hurts in the world, including disappointment. This is often a disappointment in itself."

- Unknown

"Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectation."

- Unknown

"Our Greatest Weakness Lies in Giving up. the Most Certain Way to Succeed is Always to Try Just One More Time"

"Choosing a path to follow and getting lost is a common occurrence for people. Do not be disappointed with your human frailty."

"Once cannot feel true disappointment until the very end, and even then, it is only another beginning."

"Beauty can cause disappointment, for if there is no substance beneath, the image becomes nothing but an empty picture."

"Do not make a person wait for a decision. To wait forever is a more cruel fate than to be disappointed."

"If your purpose is just discovery, never commit. This is a path that would lead to disappointment."

"There is no rush to acquire success. Do not be disappointed that you have not yet reached your potential."