Discouraged Quotes - Page 9

• Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lonely, Heart, Son

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• The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Moving, Obstacles, Bigger

  Twitter post from Nov 4, 2012

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wall, Progress, Becoming

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• To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Real, Opportunity

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• I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

  Winston Churchill

  School, Race, Dyslexia

  "A Roving Commission".

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• The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Needs, Helping

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.12, SCM Press

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• If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

  Mother Teresa

  Humble, Proud, Praise

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you can’t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Giving Up, Tired

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• You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

  David Beckham

  Odds, Succeed, One In A Million

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• There will be times when you will be frightened and discouraged. You may feel that you are defeated. The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember-David did win!

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Weapons, Worried

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2015

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• Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, People, Hopeful

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• Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to get it wrong, as many times as you need to; you only need to get it right once.

  Tana French

  Needs, Coming Out, Chapters

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• Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Purpose, Faster

  Rick Warren (2007). “The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission”, p.89, Zondervan

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• The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.

  Orison S. Marden

  Strong, Cutting, Men

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• Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of that determination fades in time. The moment you feel that is when you should make a fresh determination. Tell yourself, “OK! I will start again from now!” If you fall down seven times, get up an eighth. Don’t give up when you feel discouraged-jus t pick yourself up and renew your determination each time.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Determination, Giving Up, Fall

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• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perseverance, Tired, Men

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• Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

  Truman Capote

  Men, Thinking, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.22, Vintage

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• A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Lying, People, Cover Ups

  "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."

  Thomas A. Edison

  Work, Men, Discovery

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• Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

  Joel Osteen

  Broken, Needs, Sensitive

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• Our success will not come from the acts of our forefathers, but can come alone from what we are doing now. Those who have inherited rich blood can use that richness in building greatness in themselves, but those who have not the privilege of such inheritance need not be discouraged. They can create their own rich blood and make it as rich as they like.

  Christian D. Larson

  Greatness, Blood, Needs

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• In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

  Edward Felten

  Creativity, Technology, Decision

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