Discouraged Quotes - Page 3

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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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• Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Character, Keys

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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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• 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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• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Adequacy, Absence

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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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• Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

  Charles Stanley

  Disappointment, Choices, Discouragement

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• What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  Disappointment, Rocks, Use

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Rejection

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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• We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in all of our choices and decisions, make good use of every opportunity, and do our best in every task we undertake. We should not be unduly discouraged nor in despair at any time when we are doing the best we can. Rather, we should be satisfied with our progress even though it may come slowly at times.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Opportunity, Choices, Decision

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• Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Light, Darkness, World

  Twitter post from Nov 09, 2015

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• We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Unhappy

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• The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Problem, Winner, Persistent

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• A pause followed my greeting. Then “We’re watching you ” whispered the voice on the other end. “Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? ” Silence. Then dial tone. These younger demons. So easily discouraged.

  Josh Lanyon

  Keys, Voice, Silence

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• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Growth, Becoming, Lifetime

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• It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

  Ryan Holiday

  Persistence, Feet, Want

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.80, Penguin

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• It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Age, Hollywood

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• For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Jesus, Disappointment

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• To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love. They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection. They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire. That is why the warriors risk more than others. They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul. Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Home, Heart, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 14, 2014

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• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

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