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• [The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Want, Normal, Results

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Red Flags, Creating, Anxiety

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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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• The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

  Democritus

  Laughter, Ideas, Roots

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Feet, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. When you're afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do...if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dream, Mistake, Successful

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• I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them. I meditate on positive energy, goals, and long-term happiness. Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

  Tim Matheson

  Disappointment, Long, Goal

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

  Tim Matheson

  Disappointment, Feelings

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• 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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• One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you want, don't drown in discouragement. We say, "Oh, this didn't happen, so nothing good will happen." Don't barricade yourself.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  People, Want, Young

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, People, Despair

  Louie Giglio, Matt Redman (2011). “Indescribable: Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe”, p.108, David C Cook

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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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• The Thorn and the Blossom isn't just a love story. It's about two people who decide what they actually want to do artistically, despite discouragement. In some ways, that's just as important as the romance.

  Theodora Goss

  Two, People, Romance

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

  Charles Stanley

  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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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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• Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Courage, Military, War

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• Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Attitude, Joy

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• 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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• Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

  George S. Patton

  Determination, People, Goal

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• Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

  Francois Fenelon

  Views, Anxiety, Soul

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• By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Encouragement, Children, Average

  "The Socioeconomics of Parenting" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. January 21, 2011.

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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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• Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Waiting, Virtue

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p. 37, 1917.

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