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Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Discouragement Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Discouragement Quotes

Sharon Salzberg

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we’re able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

– Sharon Salzberg

Robert South

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

– Robert South

Robert Fitzgerald

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.

– Robert Fitzgerald

Orison Swett Marden

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

– Orison Swett Marden

Lynn Abbey

I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.

– Lynn Abbey

Joyce Meyer

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

– Joyce Meyer

Jennifer Doudna

I think that for a lot of women there’s a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

– Jennifer Doudna

Jane Gardam

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

– Jane Gardam

James Whitcomb Riley

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

James Salter

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening; you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard – the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

– James Salter

Hugh Prather

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

– Hugh Prather

Garrison Keillor

I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers’ work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

– Garrison Keillor

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