Discouraging Quotes

226 Discouraging quotes by 201 unique authors

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. — Brenda Ueland
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if… — Michael Enzi
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us. — Ed Belfour
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
I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make… — Michael Imperioli
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will… — Etgar Keret
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
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some… — Mark Twain
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
Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the… — Vayalar Ravi
Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to… — George Washington
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is… — Will Durant
Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out.… — Joseph E. Johnston
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up. — Elwyn Brooks White
People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and… — Hal Elrod
Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that… — Hal Elrod
You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group… — J. Robbins
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. — Sherwood Anderson
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. — Marcel Duchamp
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is… — Joshua Reynolds
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost… — Pascal Boyer
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until… — Ann Landers
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World. — Emily Dickinson

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