Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting."
Discouragement quotes
Discouragement
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Lynn Abbey
Author
"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
Claude Monet
Painter
"I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort."
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance."
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"The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something"
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"Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes."
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"Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement."
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"Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment."
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