To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
