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
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
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot 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
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
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
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
“Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.” — C.S. Lewis 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
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
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
The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt… — Timothy Dwight V 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
“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
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival 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
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper. — F.B. Meyer 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
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
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel 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
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That… — Kate Chopin 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
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
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
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
“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
“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