Discouragement Quotes

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

Charles Stanley

Disappointment, Choices, Discouraged

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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

Oswald Chambers

Challenges, Growth, Great Person

Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.593, Discovery House

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(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

Charles Stanley

Doors, Choices, Deals

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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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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Booker T. Washington

Success, Determination, Giving Up

Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Guy Finley

Inspirational, Dwelling, Want

FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Oct 23, 2011

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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

Truth, Work, Men

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

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Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

Charles Stanley

Disappointment, Choices, Discouraging

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For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

Alan Redpath

Order, Feet, May

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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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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Billy Graham

Life, Faith, Forgiveness

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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Francois Fenelon

Love, Self, Knowing Who You Are

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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Vincent Van Gogh

Artist, Drawing, Sketching

Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Brennan Manning

Loneliness, Journey, Evil

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Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

T. D. Jakes

Tests

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

Jerry Bridges

Fighting, Battle, Tools

Jerry Bridges (1996). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

Guy Finley

Bad Day, Dark, Dwelling

Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Long, May, Obstacles

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Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

Max Anders

Contagious

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In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Adversity, Stronger, Way

"Come What May, and Love It". www.lds.org. October 2008.

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Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

Robert Fitzgerald

Encouragement, Needs, Facts

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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Success, Money, Attitude

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.87, Wildside Press LLC

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