Discouraged Quotes

• I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Disappointed

• Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Accomplished

• Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Advice
  • Reject

• I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Feel
  • Problems
  • Discouraged

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Never
  • Discouraged

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Depressed
  • Discouraged
  • Disheartened

• Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Firsts
  • Bird
  • Eagles

• It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Feels
  • Eternity
  • Given

• I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Disability

• Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Need
  • Discouraged

• A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Motivational
  • Meaningful

• When his dream proved to be more than he could handle, he didn’t become discouraged. He simply recognized his limitations and decided to live happily within them.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Dream
  • Decided
  • Discouraged

• Sometimes when I go out and drink with my friends, they will say, "Seungri, don't be discouraged. I like Seungri. Why do you walk with your head down? Have more confidence, lift your head and walk." I guess friends understand each other.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Sometimes
  • Drink
  • Discouraged

• Edgar said she handled everything beautifully. He was very impressed with everything but the last four jumps. I'm not discouraged. It's January. We need to go on and develop this filly through the spring and get her a little bit tighter next time.

  

  D. Wayne Lukas
  • Develop
  • Jumps
  • Next Time

• “There are many of the sisters whose labors are not known beyond their own dwellings, and perhaps not appreciated there. But what difference does that make? If your labors are acceptable to God, however simple the duties, if faithfully performed, you should never be discouraged.”

  

  Eliza R. Snow
  • God
  • Discouraged
  • Labors

• Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Guy
  • Discipline
  • Discouraged

• If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Proud
  • Humble
  • Praise

• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Evil

• I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Blessing
  • Glorious
  • Discouraged

• The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Become
  • Discouraged

• I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

  

  Koren Zailckas
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Ambitious

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