Discourage Quotes

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

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 mediocrity.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Adversity can be our greatest motivation fo spiritual growth or our deadliest means of discouragement.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

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 way in which I would ever have made progress.

Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is changing your body from the inside. Never get discouraged.

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 how much I appreciate Beethoven.

We all get discouraged.

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Don't be discouraged by the size of your network - inspire one person and you are doing good.

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 this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it;

whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the stepping stones to success.

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question.

Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

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, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

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 the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

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 try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

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 still be business enough.

I discourage a cult of personality.

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business.

Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

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 encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

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 never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction.

So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

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 effort.

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 discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.

If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something.

It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

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 politicians from being big spenders.

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 testing.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.