“I can't stop you from going to South Street or North Broad Street. We can discourage it, but we can't stop it.”
George Jackson
“It's discouraging whenever we find new trees. But the fact is, we can't stop hurricanes.”
Liz Compton
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Dale Carnegie
“If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”
Calvin Coolidge
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
“Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.”
William Arthur Ward