Managing Disappointment Quotes

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Being vice-captain at Chelsea, I've learned to manage my emotions better this season and have matured massively, but part of that is embracing those feelings of disappointment rather than suppressing them and pretending everything is OK.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.

When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

The story you envision as you start out is always a great story; when the facts turn out to be different from, or more complex than, what you expected, your first reaction is always disappointment. That's when you must fight the urge to bend the story to your preconceived notions. First, it's dishonest. And second, in the end, the truth is always the best story.