15 Quotes on Discouragement

• No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

  Author: Amy Tan

• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Author: Robert South

• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Author: Bishop South

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

  Author: Florence Shinn

• 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.

  Author: James Riley

• In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

  Author: Sandra Oh

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

  Author: Neal Maxwell

• 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.

  Author: Vincent Gogh

• Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

  Author: Robert Fitzgerald

• 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.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

  Author: Francis Coppola

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

  Author: Dale Carnegie

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  Author: Bruno Bettelheim

• I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

  Author: Lynn Abbey

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