25 quotes to remember when you feel discouraged

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Here is a list of 25 quotes to uplift you whenever you feel discouraged.

Never let rejection, setbacks and obstacles prevent you from becoming the best version of yourself.

25 Quotes To Overcome Discouragement 

1. “Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” – George Weinberg

2. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

3. “Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” – Jacob A. Riis

4. “You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.” – Geraldine Brooks

5. “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and I will help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

6. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie

7. “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

8. “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.” – Vincent Van Goth

9. “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.” – Florence Scovel Shinn

10. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

11. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnagie

12. “When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

13. “This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas Alva Edison

15. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli

16. “I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.” – Tom Hopkins

17. “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.” – Martin Luther King Jr

18. “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins

19. “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau

20. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

21. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

22. “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” – Hafiz of Persia

23. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” – Barack Obama

24. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

25. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich