Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed. — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it feels like life has buried us in the dirt, when in reality we've been planted with an opportunity to grow.” — Tina Hallis Copy Share Image
There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev 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
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough 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
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment,… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every… — Jeffrey R. Holland 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
Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image