Discouraged Quotes - Page 12

• If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Dark, Light

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.115, Zondervan

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• A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Children, Misbehaving, Having Children

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• It was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fear and get back on the board. 'Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go' (Joshua 1:9).

  Bethany Hamilton

  Strong, Growing Up, Overcoming

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• If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Past, Opportunity

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

  Jon Foreman

  Perseverance, Character, Suffering

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• The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.

  John Farrar

  Writing, People, Mind

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• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  Jack Layton

  Cancer, Journey, Gone

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• The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Kind, Should

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.369, Inkling Books

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  I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Giving Up, Doubt

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• Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

  Tennessee Williams

  Menagerie, Being Disappointed, I Am Disappointed

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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• All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Stupid, Hero, Goats

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• Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

  Clarence Jordan

  Love, Jesus, Hate

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• I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Feelings, Ambitious

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• Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Goal, Achievement, Want

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• I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

  Maira Kalman

  Cute, Mistake, Glasses

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• We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.

  J.R. Miller

  Cheer, Tired, Heart

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Lonely, Reading, School

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Our Heavenly Father loves each one of us and understands that this process of climbing higher takes preparation, time, and commitment. He understands that we will make mistakes at times, that we will stumble, that we will become discouraged and perhaps even wish to give up and say to ourselves it is not worth the struggle. We know it is worth the effort, for the prize, which is eternal life, is “the greatest of all the gifts of God.” And to qualify, we must take one step after another and keep going to gain the spiritual heights we aspire to reach.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Father

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• When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Feelings, Inspired

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life Is, Willing To Change, Inner Life

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

  Leonard Cohen

  Grace, Way, Mysterious

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• Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Encounters, Goes On

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• Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.
  Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Life, Son, Science

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• Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Powerful, Men

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.92, Tuttle Publishing

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