Discouragement Quotes

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

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

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

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

~ Morgan Freeman

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't ever shelter the feeling of discouragement in your mind, because it only comes to distract one from one's true abilities in life.

~ Hafiz

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

~ Liam Perrin

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

~ Bertrand Russell

Don't be discouraged if the people around you don't see what you see in your dream. Most great people were doubted in the beginning of their journey to greatness.

~ Hafiz

No matter what it is that you are going through at this very moment, I encourage you to choose perseverance over discouragement. If you hang in strong long enough, sooner or later, this experience would become a thing of the past like the obstacles you defeated in the past.

~ Hafiz

Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures, while others succeed by consistently learning from theirs.

~ Hafiz

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

Discouragement is root of distress.

~ 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

Do not allow any discouragement in your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement, he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite, he becomes more independent.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Celeste Holm

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

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

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

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