Quotes About Demoralizing

#1. While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.

John Podhoretz

#2. My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.

Richard Greenberg

#3. There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

#4. Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn't matter if it's a jumper or a drive. Any time the ball goes through the basket, and it's going through consistently, it's demoralizing for any opponent.

Dwyane Wade

#5. Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

Glen Mazzara

#7. Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Ellen Willis

#8. Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough..

Mignon McLaughlin

#9. I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

Chris Christie

#11. Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.

David Edelstein

#12. There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

#13. You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

Paul Auster

#14. To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

Alexis Taylor

#15. He had never fainted in his life, and while he knew it was this whole life-mate, mind-blowing-sex business, it was still damned demoralizing to be fainting like a breathless virgin at the end of every encounter.

Lynsay Sands

#16. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Chris Prentiss

#17. Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.

Ryan Holiday

#18. The tango, by 1914, had been officially declared immoral, and dancers went through its showy steps under threat of being dragged off the floor to jail unless light was visible between the partners and they refrained from doing any demoralizing dance steps, like "snake-wiggling" at the shoulders.

Christine Wiltz

#19. I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

Trent Reznor

#20. If Americans can transform Memorial Day, technically a remembrance of all our war dead ever, into the official kickoff of summer, we can handle adapting one demoralizing battle into a wholesome, chipper get-together.

Sarah Vowell

#21. I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

Sia Furler

#22. There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

James M. Kouzes

#23. Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.

Oscar Wilde

#24. We hear very often declarations on the demoralizing tendency of war, but as much as I hate war, I cannot be of the opinion that frequent wars are so corrupting to human nature as long peaces.

John Adams

#25. Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

April Winchell

#26. Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,

Kate Bolick

#27. How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Oscar Wilde

#28. I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.

Paul Zindel

#29. I am fearful that the paper system will ruin the state. Its demoralizing effects are already seen and spoken of everywhere. I therefore protest against receiving any of that trash.

Andrew Jackson

#30. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet B. Braiker

#31. When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip ... allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

T.F. Hodge

#32. The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

James Howard Kunstler

#33. To be loved is very demoralizing.

Katharine Hepburn

#34. Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

Angelina Grimke

#35. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

Kobe Bryant

#36. He'd experienced it as a private trauma. Failure in American schools was demoralizing and to be avoided at all costs. American kids could not handle routine failure, or so adults thought.

Amanda Ripley

#37. Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.

Bill Jensen

#38. Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing's quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret

Robert M. Pirsig

#39. Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Margery Allingham

#40. Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.

Theodore Roosevelt

#41. It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Katharine Tynan

#42. When companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish behavior of a few individuals, it's a management problem. There's no sense in alienating your entire workforce because you don't know how to manage performance. It makes a bad situation that much worse.

Travis Bradberry

#43. I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing

Darynda Jones

#44. Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money.

Pete Savage

#45. True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit

Will Jelbert

#46. Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.

Henry A. Kissinger

#47. I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

Nick Offerman

#48. Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one.

Philip K. Dick

#49. The love song I wrote that day... I got embarrassed and never sang it for her.

Oh yeah... I'll sing it to her when I go home.

I'll go home.

I'll hurry home.

Inio Asano