Quotes of Hopelessness - somelinesforyou

“ I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

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

- Bishop Robert South

“ I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. ”

- Douglas Hyde

“ When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realized that I would have to try something else. ”

- James Stewart

“ That's what happens when a team plays with some desperation. ”

- Phil Jackson

“ We just have to win it for personal pride. I know there'll be enormous desperation not just from us but from the Force as well. ”

- Jeff Miller

“ Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities. ”

- Unknown

“ If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ”

- Charles Spurgeon

“ Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ”

- Francois de Salignac Fenelon

“ No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism. ”

- Robert Mueller

“ Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking at your feet. ”

- Unknown

“ The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. ”

- John R. Stott

“ Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities. ”

- Unknown

“ Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. ”

- Golda Meir

“ I noticed that when I went to see the rushes or the first showing that there was something quite human in this desperation, and I hadn't planned it. ”

- Leslie Caron

“ In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me. ”

- Grace Murray Hopper

“ In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.". ”

- Grace Hopper

“ Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. ”

- James Thurber

“ The name of the Slough was Despond. ”

- John Bunyan

“ Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned. ”

- Charles W. Chesnutt

“ More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!! ”

- Unknown
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