#despondency

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

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This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

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Oh darkness, I feel like letting go. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation. ↗

— Spider Robinson

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There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt desperate; he felt challenged. ↗

— William Raymond Manchester

#despondency #leadership #resiliency #leadership

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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