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Quotes About Discouragement

How we spend our souls matter...We have to desire to become fearless with these moments [of decision]. Fight through the doubt and discouragement and awkwardness of new. (32)
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When the lies of the enemy — fear, doubt, anxiety, unbelief, discouragement — rush in, we must immediately take those thoughts captive. Captive to the Truth of God's Word. The Truth of who we are as children of the One True God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
There is nothing more discouraging than speaking with an employee who received significant funding for advanced education and professional development, and then failed to fully use their new skills to benefit their organization. When this happens, employees typically leave to work at an organization that wants their skill and talent.
~ Unknown
Why are so many people struggling with depression and discouragement? They've lost heart. Why can't we seem able to break free of our addictions? Because somewhere along the way, in a moment of carelessness or desperation, we gave our heart away, and now we can't get it back.
~ John Eldredge
few things can mess you up as badly as trying to do your best. For the tender heart, the earnest heart, it is so discouraging to give all you have trying to do what you think Jesus would have you do, and find yourself falling short, sabotaging your own efforts at every turn. Discouragement and shame settle in like a long Seattle rain. And this is what most Christians experience as the Christian life: Try harder; feel worse.
~ John Eldredge
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.
~ T. D. Jakes
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Life is never going to be easy at all times, but if we allow ourselves to be discouraged by it we can easily get off the track from path of our goals.
~ Unknown
When we want something in our life, we see the vision ahead, we can taste it, only we can understand why we want it, other people around us show scorn towards it, when we let them know about it, they discourage us and give us all the reasons why it is not right for us. We becomes fools when we allow them to talk us away from it. Because what we just did? Is allow them to shoot down our own dreams & hope's away!!
~ Unknown
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is always right here, right now. Seize it! Choose to let each of your experiences today be a gateway to an even brighter tomorrow.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Discouragement is the enemy's favorite tool to use against you. He knows there is GREATNESS inside of you. Fight back. Get your life back!
~ Unknown
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
~ Orison Swett Marden
When men's spirits are sinking every thing helps to sink them.
~ Matthew Henry
Murakami played with the formulas of mass literature—what is elsewhere termed formulaic fiction—but at the last minute subverted the expectations of those formulas and left the reader wondering what had just happened. This to some degree accounted for the peculiar sense of simultaneous thrill and discouragement one often felt at the end of some of these texts.
~ Unknown
Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.
~ Michael Wolff
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
~ Unknown
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
~ Oswald Chambers
If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.
~ Oswald Chambers
If not, that is why I become discouraged. Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus—not love for Jesus Himself.
~ Oswald Chambers
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and
~ Oswald Chambers
you and I need to be open and approachable in the midst of our discouragement. We'll never get the help we need if we first demand that people sign on to our view of things before we are willing to open up to them and listen to what they have to say to us.
~ Paul David Tripp