Unavoidable Disappointment Quotes

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

A new reign is always a time of hope; everybody is disposed to see something for his own wishes and prospects. The policy of a new Sovereign must therefore be to act in such a manner as to hurt as little as possible the amour-propre [public love] of people, to let circumstances and the force of things bring about the disappointments which no human power could prevent coming sooner or later…

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I don't want to break someone's heart, but you can't control that. A broken heart happens; that's inevitable.

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.