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Do Not Despair Quotes

Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
- Chinua Achebe

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
- Andrew Jackson

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
- Emile M Cioran

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.
- Gordon B Hinckley

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
- Henri Nouwen

Unwinding a habit that you have allowed to entangle you can be difficult. But the power is in you. Do not despair. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that 'all beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.' You can resist temptation!
- Boyd K Packer

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
- Rodman Philbrick

Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.
- Fay Weldon

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