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Quotes About Discouragement

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
~ Adam Baldwin
When we rebuff the enemy in the name of Jesus Christ, when we stand our ground, when we resist his wiles and claim the victory of faith, when we shake off discouragement in the name of our Lord, Satan falls from heaven faster than lightning. He is drowned in the Red Sea of the blood of Jesus Christ.
~ Robert Morgan
Circumstances had tended to weed out many of those who might cause problems, but being human, there would be differences of opinion, for the ideal situation may exist but not ideal people. Wise I might not be, but I was wise enough to know that I myself would make mistakes. I was subject to anger, to sorrow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I do not think to discouragement.
~ Louis L'Amour
If you let people discourage you, bad breaks talk you out of it, delays cause you to quit believing, then it's going to keep you from God's best.
~ Joel Osteen
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
~ Joel Osteen
When doubt comes saying, "It would have happened by now. It's too late." This is where many people miss their miracle. They get discouraged and think that God has forgotten about them. You need patient endurance. Don't get talked out of it.
~ Joel Osteen
The people that stay happy, that don't fall into discouragement, that don't go downhill, are the people that rule over their thoughts, the people that keep their hopes up, the people that know God is still on the throne.
~ Joel Osteen
I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.
~ Joel Osteen
I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
~ E. B. White
Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.
~ Hugh Prather
Vanni, I barely know Luke Riordan, but it's real clear he's not my knight in shining armor. He's done everything he can think of to discourage me, but let's be honest—this was no frontal attack from him. He admitted he's avoided me because of my age. The coward." Vanni
~ Robyn Carr
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimisim a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore you faith in yourself.
~ Lucille Ball
Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.
~ M. Scott Peck
I let myself go to the to and fro of events and days, sometimes bewildered, sometimes apathetic, between ambition and discouragement.
~ Machado de Assis
Striving for successful goals will have a tendency at times to be discouraging, thankless, and mentally draining. You are entitled to these feelings, however you are not entitled to give up.
~ DeWayne Owens
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
~ Samuel Butler
We are in such a habit of evaluating God and His work in us by what we feel that it is very likely that on some occasions we will be discouraged because we do not feel any special blessing. Above everything, when you wait on God, you must do so in the spirit of hope.
~ Andrew Murray
Let's say your life has gone off track. You used to be very motivated, inspired by your opportunities, and physically fit, but now you are lazy, easily discouraged, and overweight. How did you get this way? You might be able to tell a story about how your life unraveled, but you cannot truly account for why you let it happen.
~ Sam Harris
Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.
~ Scott Adams
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
~ Christine Kane
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.
~ Arnold Bennett