Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive” — Lane Adams Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.” — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“There is no greater development than winning the war against discouragement .” — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Discouragement is always just a moment away, but a few words of inspiration can change discouragement into hope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“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… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of… — Amy B. Lyman Copy Share Image
“The discouragement of sleeping with the baby at night, which had been the norm since the dawn of human life, spread throughout… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Oh”, he said. He was trying to smile, but it was a brave smile, a sickroom smile, and I was sorry I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“With our existence in this world, we are living of discouragement. However, we grew each day living and learning the mistakes that… — Marivic Copy Share Image
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“We must be careful to let the Holy Spirit do this searching. If we try to search our own hearts, we are… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not… — George Eliot Copy Share Image