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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

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• Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

  David McCullough

  Courage, Men, Self

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

  George Orwell

  Light, Faces, Pushing

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• When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Action

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4660, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.

  Frederick Douglass

  Disappointment, Errors, People

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• On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Poverty

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.94, New World Library

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• To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Would Be

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• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Powerful, Trying, Tools

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

  Samuel Butler

  Teacher, Appreciation, Flower

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• Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Failure, Pride

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• Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

  Fidel Castro

  Success, Athlete, Victory

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• And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Believe, People, Belief

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• What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Time, Giving Up, Truth

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• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Work, Heart

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. This type of gratitude transcends whatever is happening around us. It surpasses disappointment, discouragement and despair. It blooms just as beautifully in the icy landscape of winter as it does in the pleasant warmth of summer.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Summer, Gratitude, Disappointment

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• I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Love, Encouragement, Heart

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• If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Country, Mother

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1844). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.574

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• Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Godly, Over You

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• At this time of crisis we cannot be concerned solely with ourselves, withdrawing into loneliness, discouragement and a sense of powerlessness in the face of problems. Please do not withdraw into yourselves! This is a danger: we shut ourselves up in the parish, with our friends, within the movement, with the like-minded... but do you know what happens? When the Church becomes closed, she becomes an ailing Church, she falls ill! That is a danger. . . .A Church closed in on herself is the same, a sick Church.

  Pope Francis

  Loneliness, Fall, Sick

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• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Return, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

  Mildred Cable

  Heart, Weak Points, Camels

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, Two, Looks

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• A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.

  Camille Henrot

  Want, Emotion, Contact

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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