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156 Discouragement quotes by 123 unique authors

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. — Joyce Meyer
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe… — Joel Osteen
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably… — James Whitcomb Riley
In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end,… — Sharon Salzberg
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent… — Florence Scovel Shinn
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to… — Charles Stanley
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think… — Amy Tan
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place… — Anais Nin
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… — David McCullough
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the… — Brenda Ueland
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. — Diane Arbus
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences… — Samuel Smiles
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder… — Ralph Nader
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once… — Charles Dickens
Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged?… — Jerry Spinelli
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you… — Anne Rice
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts.… — Marvin J. Ashton
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. — Neal A. Maxwell
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others.… — Yukio Mishima
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. — Abraham Lincoln
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it… — John Ortberg
Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles… — Judith McNaught

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