~ Disappointment is often the salt of life. ~ Theodore Parker
~ We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ~ Eliza Tabor
~ Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. ~ Sir Boyle Roche
~ 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
~ Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
~ 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
~ Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride. ~ Mike Howerton
~ Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
~ 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
~ Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
~ Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. ~ Marguerite de Valois
