I Will Not Be Discouraged Quotes

#1. I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#2. People become discouraged when they listen to their 'inner critic' ... Whatever that voice is saying, articulate a response, drawing from the part of you that feels strong and confident. Be your own cheerleader.

Lauren Mackler

#3. Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.

Ulisses Soares

#4. The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Thomas Paine

#5. A stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.

Edna O'Brien

#6. I am often tired. I am sometimes discouraged. I am always sure.

Steven Millhauser

#7. A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

Frederick Lenz

#8. It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.

Robin McKinley

#9. The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure.

William G. Tapply

#10. Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Oscar Wilde

#11. The little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

Laila Ali

#13. When a person is discouraged, he loses self-control and patience

Sunday Adelaja

#14. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

#15. If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

Seth Adam Smith

#16. My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, and do not be discouraged, Israel, for without fail I will save you from far away. Jeremiah 46:27

Beth Moore

#17. If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#18. There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too, have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#19. We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety ... but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#20. What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

Joyce Meyer

#21. O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

Saint Basil

#22. I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

C.J. Mahaney

#23. I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.

Jay Parini

#25. If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa Of Avila

#26. Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

Tana French

#27. If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Shunryu Suzuki

#28. That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Ray Bradbury

#29. The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#30. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

Maureen Forrester

#31. This is my command- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

Anonymous

#32. Be not discouraged. There is a future for you ... The resistance encountered now predicates hope ...

Frederick Douglass

#33. God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow,

Joyce Meyer

#34. Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

Brother Lawrence

#35. Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good.

David Berg

#36. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself - traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls' academic gains have not yet translated into significantly higher numbers of women in top jobs.

Sheryl Sandberg