“It might look discouraging , but at every relapse, you learn something new.” — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“It’s discouraging when, in the midst of a Quixotic life, you realize that the windmill is kicking your ass.” — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us. — Ed Belfour Copy Share Image
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone… — Jane Fulton Alt Copy Share Image
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you have a dream: Number one, make a plan. And then execute that plan. And there will be failures along that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most… — Svetlana Boginskaya Copy Share Image
You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Don't ever give up on your dream. Ever. The most valuable thing I have gained from this whole TMNT experience so far… — Tohoru Masamune Copy Share Image
Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood. — William Castle Copy Share Image
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image