Discouragement Quotes

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

Steve Goodier

We must be careful to let the Holy Spirit do this searching. If we try to search our own hearts, we are apt to fall into one or both of two traps. The first is the trap of morbid introspection. Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the "accuser" (Revelation 12:10). One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited, we will not fight the battle for holiness. The second trap is that of missing the real issues in our lives.

Jerry Bridges

Don’t be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something—“I really want to be a writer”—then that little voice comes along, “but I might not make enough money as a writer.” “Oh, okay, then I won’t write.” That’s being tossed away. These little voices are constantly going to be nagging us. If you make a decision to do something, you do it. Don’t be tossed away. But part of not being tossed away is understanding your mind, not believing it so much when it comes up with all these objections and then loads you with all these insecurities and reasons not to do something.

Natalie Goldberg

Consequences need not be the obstacles that I dread, but the direction that I need.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Don't ever be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly rejected, spat upon and seen as an unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is and then they accept, celebrate and enjoy it.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Be not be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly to a greater extent rejected, spat upon and seen as unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is to be accepted

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those rocks.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I’ve had the kind of bad day no quote can fix.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

Richelle E. Goodrich

We live by encouragement and die without it -- slowly, sadly, and angrily.

Celeste Holm

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Discouragement is root of distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Bertrand Russell

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

Morgan Freeman

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.

Sarah Thebarge

A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom they trusted to someday betray them. People inevitably witness the death of their loved ones. We also witness acts of depravity committed by criminals that lurk in every society and rouge acts of scandal committed by government officials in charge of the public welfare. A person must nonetheless resist personal discouragement, sadness, dejection, and despondency. I must reach an accord with pain, suffering, and anguish, or forevermore be tortured by reality while constantly seeking to escape from the inescapable agony of being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

If you fear doing something, don’t discourage others who are doing it.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never let someone who draws a line and say you can't cross it intimidate you. Don't be discouraged when someone says you can't do it. You might have been the only one sent to do it.

Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigger than what they have on their lips!

Israelmore Ayivor

When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But when a human being begins to fly, you begin to hear talks in the town such as "abomination!... where did he get the wings from?". Never mind! Your dreams are your wings, so decide to fly!

Israelmore Ayivor

Dream murderers are people who refuse to learn and optimize their own dreams. They discourage others from going ahead to make it happen. Why? Because they don't want go higher and they want everyone to be like them!

Israelmore Ayivor

The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours of their discouragements. God whispers; “I am with you”!

Israelmore Ayivor

Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!

Israelmore Ayivor

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Criss Jami

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

Ernest Hemingway

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You will not be able to envision your future until you block out the words of those who constantly scorch you with discouraging remarks

Evy Michaels

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.

Sunday Adelaja

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it’s adhering to our scripts or not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Disappointment focuses on ‘what is not,’ and completely misses the far greater reality of ‘what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you get there.

Israelmore Ayivor

Those who lack courage are often the first to discourage.

Robert J. Braathe

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Neal A Maxwell

Don’t be discouraged by life’s difficulties. With hope and determination, you can triumph over any difficulties.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.

Criss Jami

Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!

Anthony Liccione

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

Patricia Highsmith

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Criss Jami

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

Kevin Smith

Be optimistic and don’t ever get discouraged or give up no matter how vain it may seem initially

Sunday Adelaja

Never get discouraged because you got fired

Sunday Adelaja

Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.

Germany Kent

Lose of hope leads to discouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

Jacques Philippe

Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.

Mike Norton

The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill fear in you, hold you back, push you down and never encourage you to fly forward. When I have kids, they'll already be born with propellers with added wings. Even if one tells me they want to go learn how to ride lions in Africa, if their heart is driving that desire, I'd say "DO IT".If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store.

Suzy Kassem

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