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

Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.

When you get wisdom, failure and discouragement will get behind you.

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.

Dismiss any thought that leads to discouragement.

Don't be discouraged by life's difficulties. With hope and determination, you can triumph over any difficulties.

Lose of hope leads to discouragement.

More people fail through discouragement than for any other reason.

Don't discourage the other man's plans unless you have better ones to offer.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement-discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.