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Quotes about Disappointment

These were all commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
- Hebrews 11:39
When we put our faith and trust in someone and they prove themselves to be false, it hurts.
- Tracie Peterson
but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
- Paulo Coelho
We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
- Paulo Coelho
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Lord, help me to focus on Your will for my life so I won't be distracted, destroyed, discouraged, disappointed, or defeated.
- David Jeremiah
Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!
- Horatius Bonar
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
- Conan O'Brien
Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.
- Conan O'Brien
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Whenever we meet disappointment and sickness and trouble, my boy, let us thank Him for having brought us this hour, and let us not forget meekness, for it is written: 'On this man will I look, even on him who is poor and sorrowful and who trembleth at My word.
- Vincent Van Gogh
According to Theo, he is definitely making a name for himself. But we are under no illusions, and are only too grateful that he is having some slight success. You don't know what a hard life he has had, and who can say what is still in store for him. His disappointments have often made him fell bitter and have turned him into an unusual person.
- Vincent Van Gogh