Every person among us at one time or another has felt the distress of discouragement to tug at our hearts and dampen our spirits.

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

Dale Carnegie -- Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Guy Finley -- Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

Anonymous -- Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence

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