Top 100 Quotes About Discouragement

#1. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

Napoleon Hill

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#2. The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.

Diana Pavlac Glyer

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#3. Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

Robert Fitzgerald

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#4. Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

Virginia H. Pearce

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#5. Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#6. Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

Jim Berg

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#7. A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.

Edith Wharton

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#8. Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.

Judith McNaught

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#9. On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

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#10. Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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#11. Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.

Billy Graham

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#12. Discouragement does not come to passive and indifferent people who lack initiative

Sunday Adelaja

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#13. The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Mary Higgins Clark

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#14. The preachers of past failures are the detractors of the success of the present and jeopardizers of the future

ABC

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#15. For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

Alan Redpath

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#16. Discouragement is a signal of the flesh and the tongue

Sunday Adelaja

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#17. Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Grover Cleveland

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#18. There will be glimpses of hope, shards of refracted light at the Cross when Jesus is crucified, but on the way there is very little. Sobering, yet truthful. We are reminded that others who have sought hope and freedom have had to endure without much to go on, too.

Megan McKenna

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#19. The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

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#20. Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and

Oswald Chambers

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#21. I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.

Sarah Thebarge

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#22. 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

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#23. The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

H.W. Charles

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#24. I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

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#25. Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

Charles Stanley

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#26. And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it.

Gustave Flaubert

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#27. I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Garrison Keillor

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#28. There is no greater development than winning the war against discouragement .

Osunsakin Adewale

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#29. Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#30. In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Sandra Oh

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#31. The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Diane Arbus

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#32. If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.

Mother Teresa

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#33. Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.

Ray Johnston

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#34. I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

Jennifer Doudna

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#35. Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

Fidel Castro

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#36. You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they had all been discouraged but my grandfather, an innocent from the Georgetown Divide who read books.

Joan Didion

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#37. Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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#38. My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

Liam Perrin

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#39. Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Francois Fenelon

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#40. I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Lynn Abbey

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#41. If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

Mother Teresa

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#42. [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Mildred Cable

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#43. How we spend our souls matter...We have to desire to become fearless with these moments [of decision]. Fight through the doubt and discouragement and awkwardness of new. (32)

Lysa TerKeurst

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#44. Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Guy Finley

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#45. You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft - then you can add all the genius you like.

Phyllis A. Whitney

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#46. [The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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#47. When you face discouragement, you can do one of two things, and the one you choose will color your perspective. You can look at others to place the blame, or you can look at yourself to discover your opportunities. The choice is yours.

John C. Maxwell

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#48. Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

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#49. I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

Tim Matheson

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#50. It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Francois Guizot

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#51. Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann's constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

K. Howard Joslin

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#52. It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#53. Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#54. The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

Bernard Iddings Bell

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#55. Discouragement is your enemy, therefore resist it

Sunday Adelaja

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#56. And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a Christian can never be sad! Never give way to discouragement! Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a Person: Jesus, in our midst.

Pope Francis

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#57. Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Will Rogers

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#58. Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigger than what they have on their lips!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#59. My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

Amy B. Lyman

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#60. As knowing God becomes more important to you, you will stop thinking about discouragements and persecutions; you will stop worrying altogether

Sunday Adelaja

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#61. Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

Honore De Balzac

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#62. Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus

Ryan Holiday

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#63. Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#64. Lord, bless the works of my hands. Let my name be associated with good things. Shield me from persecution and false accusations; guard me against greed, discouragement, and sabotage. I welcome opportunities to grow and mature. Let my actions be in sync with Your will. In Jesus's name, amen.

Cindy Trimm

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#65. A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.

Camille Henrot

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#66. Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

Tony Dungy

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#67. I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

James Salter

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#68. Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Brennan Manning

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#69. When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

T. B. Joshua

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#70. Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

T.D. Jakes

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#71. For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Charles Dickens

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#72. I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement; anguish and antagonism as I am aware now that I am suppose to use them as a yard tick to measure my accomplishments and victories

Archibald Gumiro

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#73. I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Jane Gardam

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#74. He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

John Buchan

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#75. The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

John Stott

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#76. Discouragement is not from God.

Ignatius Of Loyola

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#77. I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Francis Ford Coppola

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#78. Discouragement is a mental disorder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#79. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.

David Gelernter

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#80. The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

Maria Montessori

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#81. Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

George Sand

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#82. To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics:
I can write.
I have the opportunity to do so.
I love what I write.
Now smile and be thankful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#83. Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

David McCullough

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#84. Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Max Anders

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#85. If I get up just one less time than the number of times I've been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#86. It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness.

David O. McKay

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#87. The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren't the first person to cry. And you aren't the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember - the story is yours!

Max Lucado

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#88. Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

Orison Swett Marden

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#89. Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#90. Discouragement is an attitude.

Sterling W. Sill

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#91. Gratitude is like that. It transforms. It is such a force that it cannot coexist with selfishness, with discouragement, with discontent.

Rachel Jankovic

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#92. In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

Jacques Philippe

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#93. The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#94. When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that ... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Elbert Hubbard

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#95. Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

Jerry Bridges

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#96. Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

Winston Churchill

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#97. There is no greater illness than discouragement!

Yisroel Salanter

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#98. Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Jaggi Vasudev

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#99. Never get discouraged because you got fired

Sunday Adelaja

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#100. Lose of hope leads to discouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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