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

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
James Whitcomb Riley

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

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes

I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
Suzanne Somers

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
Louise Erdrich

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
Camille Claudel

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.
Dyan Cannon

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
Clyde Tombaugh

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

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Paul Desmond

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Archer J. P. Martin

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
Graham Nash

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
Laurell K. Hamilton

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Tom Ford

It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
Michael York

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
Howard Staunton

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
Ray Harryhausen