I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make. — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.” — Ray Johnston Copy Share Image
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. — John Stott Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name… — Lincoln Ellsworth Copy Share Image
And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Dream murderers are people who refuse to learn and optimize their own dreams. They discourage others from going ahead to make it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement,… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
“When you are trying to do any good work, each and every time people are and will discourage you rather than encouraging… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Discouragement, fear, and depression— three villains who lurk in the dark. They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Discouragement is the anaesthesia the devil uses before he rips our very heart out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“Because of our strong attachment to the fulfilment of our own wishes, whenever our wishes – especially those we consider important –… — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image