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
“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Such despondency is rarely psychologically devastating, but when combined with defensive reasoning, it can result in a formidable predisposition against learning.” — Harvard Business Review Copy Share Image
“The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A knock on my office door interrupted the despondency of my broodings. “Come in!” I called, removing the countenance I currently wore… — Gabriellyn Gidman Copy Share Image
“It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“Except as often as Wagner preached that they were collectively engaged in the "music of the future," and no matter how much… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
“You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse;… — Francois Fenelon 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
Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
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
How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the… — Stephen Charnock 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
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. — Kate Chopin 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
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged.” — William Raymond Manchester Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse;… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come… — Anonymous 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
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
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your… — Tae Yun Kim 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