I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing. — James M. Kouzes Copy Share Image
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And really, was there anything so demoralizing as meeting a former lover? Never did a woman have more cause to doubt her… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“Demoralizing self-talk leads to a self-destructive mindset, making everything in life more difficult. Not only that, how you feel about yourself oozes… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependance upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for… — Bill W Copy Share Image
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic -… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing. — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing. — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image