“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”
Helen Keller
“If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.”
Loretta Young
“It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation”
Samuel Johnson
“Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers”
Arthur Helps
“We are disappointed that the Chinese government is not yet willing to negotiate seriously to resolve the dispute over textiles.”
Cass Johnson
“A lot of people are assuming after Intel's disappointment that Texas Instruments will also disappoint.”
William Lefkowitz
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