Discouragement Quotes

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

… the difficulty in bringing our people to agree upon it has ever discouraged me.

The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.

I've got that resilient thing inside me. But I wasn't a happy bunny.

I really don't feel like playing anymore.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

To go back means defeat.

Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.

Naysayers have been saying stuff my whole career.

I see the bad in everything I do.

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.