Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.
I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.
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.
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.
Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.
One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you want, don't drown in discouragement. We say, "Oh, this didn't happen, so nothing good will happen. " Don't barricade yourself.
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.
Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.
Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
