Discourage Quotes

189 quotes by 166 authors

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices. — Benjamin Carson
If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this. — Roy Jones Jr.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! — Plato
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her. — John C. Maxwell
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is… — Carl Sagan
Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course,… — Ian Mckellen
I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people out to play… — Sheryl Crow
Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer… — Jack Anderson
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics. — Norbert Wiener
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and… — Shane Claiborne
Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to… — Alison Levine
It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot… — Helen Keller
Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores,… — Charles Portis
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. — C. V. Wedgwood
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree. — Arne Duncan
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field… — Tim Ferriss
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. — Lynn Abbey
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or… — Juliet Mills
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot discourage who are… — Harold Speed

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