Discouraged Quotes - Page 16

• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps.

  Jennifer Young

  Baby, Moving, Worry

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• Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving.

  Francis Quarles

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.

  Paula Deen

  Giving Up, People, Goal

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• I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Cities, Matter

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

  Saint Basil

  Religious, Divine Will, Helping

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• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Forgiveness, Repentance, Labor

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.122, Latter-day Publishing

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• I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

  Meaghan Rath

  Class, Feelings, Doe

  "Playing Dead". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.backstage.com. January 10, 2011.

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• There are places that are thriving in America that don't need very much help, and then there are places where people feel so discouraged and so left behind, like nobody cares about them. And I want to try to help there.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, People, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Church, Down And

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• Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Bad Mood, Realizing, Difficulty

  Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.4, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Wise, People, Sick

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

  Jim Talent

  People, Unemployment, Gone

  "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

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• Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Path

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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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• A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Frustrated

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• The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Drinking, People, Poison

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• We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Excited

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “Straight Talk on Discouragement: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word!”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

  Joyce Meyer

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• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Giving Up, Believe

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

  John Kasich

  Leader, Minorities, Partnership

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Spiritual, Animal

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• I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Creativity, School

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14216, Delphi Classics

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• I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Blow, Wind, World

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