Discouragement Quotes - Page 8

• Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Patience, New Year

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• I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Inspirational, Persistence, Order

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Art, Flower

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels.

  Judith McNaught

  Eye, Voice, Jenny

  Judith McNaught (2016). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

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• How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that we suppress discouragement or deny the reality of pain. I don't think she was suggesting that we smother unpleasant truths beneath a cloak of pretended happiness. But I do believe that the way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Mother, Pain, Believe

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• You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Disappointment, Writing, Pay The Price

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• Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

  G. H. Hardy

  Eye, Hard Work, Humble

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• With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.

  Richard G. Scott

  Disappointment, Righteous Living, Choices

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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• Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• So today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced, every sorrow we have ever known, every discouragement we have ever had, every fear we have ever faced-to say nothing of our resurrection from death and forgiveness for our sins. That victory is available to us because of events that transpired on a weekend precisely like this nearly two millennia ago in Jerusalem.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Weekend, Two

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• He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

  John Buchan

  Firsts, Disaster, Masters

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• Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Amusement, Politics

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Motivational, Book, Names

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• Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

  Norbert Wiener

  Confusion, Community, Mind

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.110, Da Capo Press

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• Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can be expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.

  Jerry Lynch

  Running, Teacher, Stress

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• My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

  Amy B. Lyman

  Courage, Anchors, Joy

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