Discouraged Quotes

• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

  Mother Teresa

  Pride, Billiards, Self Sufficiency

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.30, New World Library

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• Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Disappointment, Choices

  "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

  John Keats

  Cheer, Failure, Errors

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• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

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• A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Fighting

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.136, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

  Franco Harris

  Change, Attitude, Thinking

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• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Adequacy, Absence

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• I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

  Louise Erdrich

  Inspirational, Talking, America

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• You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

  Miriam Makeba

  People, Important

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• I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

  Dyan Cannon

  Depressing, Problem, Like You

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• If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

  Tom Ford

  Parent, Environmental, Open Minded

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Couple, Hard Work, Thinking

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• If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Congratulations, Failure, Progress

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• Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

  Charles Dickens

  Trying, Sometimes, Failing

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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  One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Happiness, Being Happy, Believe

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• I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  Salma Hayek

  Strength, Believe, Important

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• Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fear, Hate, Winning

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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