Discouragement Quotes

• Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

  Charles Stanley

  Disappointment, Choices, Discouraged

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• Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Disappointment, Choices

  "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.

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• If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.

  Oswald Chambers

  Challenges, Growth, Great Person

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.593, Discovery House

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• Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Giving Up

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

  James Keller

  Business, Heart, Pride

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• (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.

  Charles Stanley

  Doors, Choices, Deals

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• With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.

  Elizabeth George

  Peace, Heart, Knowing

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.72, Harvest House Publishers

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• Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Dwelling, Want

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Oct 23, 2011

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

  Joyce Meyer

  Disappointment, Soul

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

  Charles Stanley

  Disappointment, Optimistic, Choices

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Discouragement is not from God.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Faith, Faith In God

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• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Adequacy, Absence

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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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• Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Depression

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• Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

  George Sand

  Chance

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.74

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• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Encouraging, Perseverance

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

  Brennan Manning

  Loneliness, Journey, Evil

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• Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

  T. D. Jakes

  Tests

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• When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

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• You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

  Fawad Afzal Khan

  Want

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• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Drawing, Sketching

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

  Alan Redpath

  Order, Feet, May

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