No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“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… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Discouragement & lack of confidence are greatest obstacle on the way of success. The surest way to encounter discouragement & lack of… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“You couldn't pay for her hats,' her father, a ship's captain, had told her suitors by way of discouragement, and perhaps they… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“And here the first word that I wish to say to you: joy! Do not be men and women of sadness: a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“When we’re distracted and discouraged, tired and overwhelmed, there is no better place to go than to our Father. He alone has… — Joanna Weaver Copy Share Image
“May discouragement never meet you in the dark corners of your life. In fact, may every place you wander have lovely light!… — Barbara Becker Holstein Copy Share Image
In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“When we cave to discouragement, we are really saying that we think our circumstances are bigger than the Creator of the universe.… — Kasey Van Norman Copy Share Image
We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will… — Liam Perrin Copy Share Image
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I loved him against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all the discouragement there could be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Confidence like that can go a long way in helping overcome discouragement about how life hasn't worked out the way thought it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Anyone who does not share his moments of joy and discouragement with others will never fully know his own qualities and his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that… — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
“Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.” — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write. I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image