Discouragement Quotes

• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Soul
  • Persistence
  • Spite

• For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Saviour
  • Discouragement
  • Helplessness

• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Spite
  • Pencils
  • Forsaken

• A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Work
  • Emotion
  • Humor

• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • Silent
  • Suspect

• In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • May
  • Hurt
  • Eternity

• Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Feeling
  • Prey
  • Discouragement

• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Energy
  • Changed
  • Impressive

• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Trying
  • Evil
  • Powerful

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

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Growth

• For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Remembers
  • Discouragement
  • Rest Of Life

• Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Should
  • Source
  • Defeat

• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Survived
  • Death-shock

• I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hope
  • Promise
  • Discouragement

• In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Parent
  • Values
  • Protection

• I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Work
  • Discouragement
  • Back Again

• A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds.

  

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba
  • Faith
  • Deeds
  • Discouragement

• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Remembrance
  • Discouragement
  • Presentiment

• 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
  • Creativity
  • Efforts
  • Delicate

• On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty
  • Loneliness

• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Creativity
  • Expression
  • Lifestyle

• You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

  

  Fawad Afzal Khan
  • Down
  • Whatever
  • Discouragement