Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. - L. M. Montgomery
To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful. - Richelle E. Goodrich
When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you. - Sunday Adelaja
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. - Brian Adams
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. - Neal A. Maxwell
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort. - Morgan Freeman
Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. - Abraham Lincoln
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. - Francois de Fenelon