Quotes About Discouragement

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make. – Dr. Charles Stanley

Do not be discouraged if your plans do not succeed the first time. No one learns to walk by taking only one step. – Catherine Pulsifer

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged. – Thomas Edison

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. – Robert South

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs. – Madame Guizot

Never, never, never quit! – Winston Churchill

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

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments. – Dr. Charles Stanley

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

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. – Neal A. Maxwell

Don’t accept discouragement, keep going! Less stress will result by not allowing discouragement to be your attitude! – Catherine Pulsifer

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart. – Anonymous

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement. – Florence Scovel Shenn

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree … but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement… that requires a heroism which is transcendent. – Henry Ward Beecher

The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. – James Whitcomb Riley

(Discouragement) Can be temporary–or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life. – Dr. Charles Stanley

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement. – Paul J. Fleyer

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