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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

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✓Similar Perspectives

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

— Morris West

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

— Menander

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

— James E. Faust

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

— Saint Ignatius

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

— David Green

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

— Emile M. Cioran

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

— Ieyasu Tokugawa