Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the…

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

— Thabo Mbeki

What I am trying to teach is that when we keep the temple covenants we have made and when we live righteously in order…

— Richard G. Scott

“wasn’t white. I felt utterly despondent and ready to give up. DI Fisher: But you didn’t give up, did you? CMB: No. No, I…

— Samantha Hayes

When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell…

— Vance Havner

Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become…

— Tikhon of Zadonsk

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of…

— Thomas Mann

If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle…

— Gus Van Sant

Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who…

— John of Kronstadt

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

— Kin Hubbard

Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never…

— Amy Carmichael

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise.…

— Paula White

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

— Henry Ward Beecher

In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy.…

— Gertrude Lawrence

Don't be despondent when you're confronted with rejection and disappointment. Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the…

— KemmyNola