Discouraging Quotes
226 quotes by 205 authors
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper…
— Alfred Adler
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they…
— Mariah Carey
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal…
— William J. Clinton
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
— Chuck Daly
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
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When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position…
— Ralph Miller
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By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are…
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is…
— Cesar Chavez
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior,…
— Don Henley
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Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and…
— Thomas Troward
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
— Richard Dawkins
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We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin,…
— Barack Obama
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Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...
— Thomas Paine
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Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of…
— Murray Rothbard
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Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
— Amory Lovins
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures…
— Robert Boyle
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This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage…
— Anne McLellan
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