Discouraging Quotes

226 Discouraging quotes by 201 unique authors

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it. — Rees Howells
Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to… — Tony Rothman
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum… — Malcolm Turnbull
What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to… — Jean de la Bruyere
I discourage a cult of personality. — Newt Gingrich
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any… — Calvin Coolidge
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. — Umberto Eco
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. — Richard L. Evans
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. — Gary Hamel
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself… — Jascha Heifetz
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that… — Ernest Istook
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will… — Abraham Lincoln
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not… — Russell Means
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were… — Thomas Paine
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from… — Quintilian
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can… — Sidney Sheldon
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage… — Thomas Sowell
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to… — Charles Stanley
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging. — Barbra Streisand
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory… — Major Taylor
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in… — Christy Turlington
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. — Shania Twain

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