43+ Best Discouraged Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Discouraged means having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something. Profoundly inspirational discouraged quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Discouraged Quotes

If you fail, do not be discouraged. Henry Sy

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.MDale Carnegie

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family. Carlene Carter

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

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. Carol Burnett 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

I’ve always been very determined. I don’t get easily discouraged. Kalpana Chawla

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh, A.A. Milne

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers. Sigourney Weaver

Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I’m not discouraged. Jane Fonda

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. Alexandre Dumas

If you have a passion for something, never be discouraged by anyone. Neil Sedaka

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. Gail Sheehy, Author

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life. Joel Osteen

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph Kennedy

Be proud of your heritage, and don’t be discouraged from the improbable. Carey Price

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life. Bernice King

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. Haruki Murakami

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. Maya Angelou

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you’re never discouraged. Salma Hayek 

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. Randy Pausch

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Napoleon Hill

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today H.G. Wells

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. John Burroughs

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown

You have setbacks in your life and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have the courage to get through it and be better.  Austin Seferian Jenkins

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do Give it some time. That’s the only way to get to know yourself. SZA

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful Joshua J. Marine

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success  on the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.

I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction. Marquis de Lafayette

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. Jack Layton

No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself.