Discouragement Quotes - Page 6

• The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Color, Drawing, Lines

  Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass (2007). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Pain, Eye

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• In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Courage, Hurt, May

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

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• There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Religious, Disappointment, Drama

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

  Tony Dungy

  Encouragement, Benefits, Moral

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.179, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Wall, Choices

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• We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Giving Up, Men, Anchors

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

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• The things we hope in sustain us during our daily walk. They uphold us through trials, temptations, and sorrow. Everyone has experienced discouragement and difficulty. Indeed, there are times when the darkness may seem unbearable. It is in these times that the divine principles of the restored gospel we hope in can uphold us and carry us until, once again, we walk in the light.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Light, Temptation, Darkness

  "The Infinite Power of Hope". www.lds.org. November 2008.

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• If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;
  if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

  Arnold Bennett

  Giving Up, Lying, Effort

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trying, Done, Way

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• How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Opportunity

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• Prayer can truly change your life. For it turns your attention away from yourself and directs your mind and your heart toward the Lord. If we look only at ourselves, with our own limitations and sins, we quickly give way to sadness and discouragement. But if we keep our eyes fixed on the Lord, then our hearts are filled with hope, our minds are washed n the light of truth, and we come to know the fullness of the Gospel with all is promise and life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Heart, Sadness

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• Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Regulation, Taxes, Income Tax

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Temptation

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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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• In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sigh, I too say, Trust Jesus. Let Him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that He can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Believe, Humanity

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• Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

  Christine Kane

  Mistake, Moving, Tired

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• Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Receiving, Pouring, Appreciative

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.34, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

  Claude Monet

  Strength, Hard Work, Periods

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cutting, Accomplishment, Envy

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• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Littles, Captains

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.328

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• And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Lying, Dust, Challenges

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• I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

  Jane Gardam

  Thinking, Young Writers, Influence

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• Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Defeat, Stimulus, Source

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