Discouraged Quotes

• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged, but don't give up on your future.

  Joel Osteen

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Adversity, Mountain

  "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight: A Woman-to-Woman Recipe for Life" by Lorna Stremcha, p. 63, October 18, 2011.

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• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Positive, Being Happy, Appreciation

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.153, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing.

  Asher Roth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Bible, Strong, Fear And Faith

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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• I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Education, College, Fields

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• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  Suzanne Somers

  Careers, Three, Done

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Perseverance, Determination, Failure

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• Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Giving, Great Presidents, Petty

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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• If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

  Graham Nash

  Long, Critics, Ifs

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  Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Hope, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.14, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

  Sean Penn

  Inspiration, Being Ignored, Individuality

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• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Determination, Persistence

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• There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Perseverance, Teaching

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• As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Giving Up, Writing, Luxury

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• I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Father, Age

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• She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

  Bill Griffith

  Sister, Father, Artistic

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• This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

  Kenny Marchant

  Country, Television, Radio

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• If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Wonder, Could Have Been, Has Beens

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• What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

  Steve Lacy

  Temptation, Survival, Strategy

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• Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

  James Hillman

  Kids, Problem, Trouble

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• I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

  Camille Claudel

  Problem, Feels

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• Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Hate, Winning, Hatred

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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