Quotes About Discouragement

Once you get depressed, you don't really feel like doing anything. You're kind of discouraged about yourself, and then the weight gain, too, or that makes me more depressed.

Botanists have done their best to intimidate and confuse the nature lover. But we should not allow ourselves to be discouraged; we have as much right to the enjoyment of wild flowers as they. So I will disregard the botanist and I will go looking for the pretty flower that I have named Merry Heart. It is always nodding and dancing in the breeze. It is a happy flower, deserving of a happy, light name.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

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

While washing up, Bep began talking to Mother and Mrs van Daan about how discourages she gets. What help did those two offer her? Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. Do you know what her advice was? That she should think about all the other people in the world who are suffering! How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself?

Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Life is a very powerful force, despite the constant discouragement. So if you are a person with connections to life, a few tendrils eventually break through the sidewalk of loss, and you notice them, maybe space out studying them for a few moments, or maybe they tickle you into movement and response, if only because you have to scratch your nose.

Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a "negativity bias" that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we're feeling lost or discouraged, it can be very hard to conjure up memories and feelings of happiness and ease.

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.

I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Fears, worries, weariness, discouragement . . . all these things can impede our mobility.

To me, the hours that pass by each day are just an agony that I want to throw in the trash." ~ Juri Mutou

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

They persisted in the face of discouragement until they gained the kind of acceptance accorded to the inevitable.

I told Pop I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up, but he said scientists were men, and I'd just get married.

Cowardice (lack of courage) kills more dreams, visions and aspirations than anything else does. Or rather, it discourages and delays the actualization of dreams, visions and aspirations more than anything else does. Thus, you've got to be courageous. I mean, dare to live your dreams, visions or aspirations. ~Emeasoba George.

Failure is often disheartening i.e. failure do cause great discouragement most times. But, you shouldn't feel discouraged just because of failure. For, every of your so seemed failure is a means to success.

Nothing procures so many crowns for the monk as discouragement.

There is no limit-disappointment.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

At times I still labor under the myth of an omnicompetence. If I just prayed enough, believed enough, or was filled with the Spirit enough, I would never get discouraged or downcast. What a groundless lie. What a horrible burden. What a humorless joke.

I am aiming at is a substantial diminution in actual burden on the direct taxpayer. I believe that this burden is at the present time a grave discouragement to enterprise and thrift and a potent factor in the tendency to high profits. I want to make a real impression upon this.

Evil's ultimate goal is to divide us and separate us from God," he said. He distracts, discourages, distorts, and creates doubt so that we will be divided from God, divided from each other and from ourselves.