Top 100 Quotes About Discourage
#1. The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
H.L. Mencken
#2. 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.
Quintilian
#3. 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 make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon
#4. Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you approach all things boldly and with an attitude of determination.
Koichi Tohei
#5. a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#6. When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.
Jamie Cullum
#7. Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#8. The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.
Thomas Brooks
#9. The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.
Roberto Bolano
#10. Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.
Paula Deen
#11. Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows
E. E. Cummings
#12. I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science, almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.
Theodore Von Karman
#13. The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Mallory Ortberg
#14. Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer.
K.T. Hunter
#15. Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
Judy Blume
#16. The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.
Henry Hazlitt
#17. You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
John C. Maxwell
#18. Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon ... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
William Barclay
#19. Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.
Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications.
Richard Stallman
#21. My past may discourage me and my future may frighten me, but "the life I now live" today can be enriching and encouraging because "Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).
Warren W. Wiersbe
#22. Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.
Thomas Watson
#23. You measure a person by what it
takes to discourage them.
Bo Ryan
#24. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.
James Gleick
#25. Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.
Bill Dedman
#26. There were spells on opening doors and closing them, spells to ward your door, and even one to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses from your door,
Juliet Dark
#27. 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.
Dana Rohrabacher
#28. 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.
Calvin Coolidge
#29. Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.
Shirin Ebadi
#30. In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
Marion Bailey
#31. One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
Norbert Wiener
#32. I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.
Jerry Vlasak
#33. There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
Emily Dickinson
#34. 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.
Linda Ronstadt
#35. People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don't ever give up.
Sarah Morgan
#36. Never discourage anyone ... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato
#37. 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 the natural consequence of too easy tasks.
Joshua Reynolds
#38. You can't allow the false ideas of defeat to discourage you. Every day you should feel encouraged to do your best, encouraged to be your best, and encouraged to work towards your best.
Courtney Brooks
#40. There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.
Jane Fulton Alt
#41. General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
C.V. Wedgwood
#42. All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
Lawrence Summers
#43. To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
Sri Aurobindo
#44. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#45. Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
Bertrand Russell
#46. I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.
Jeaniene Frost
#48. 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.
Major Taylor
#49. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
Steve Maraboli
#50. Do not put up with mean people who discourage your laughter.
Jim Dines
#51. If you'd managed to force it open, you would have made a direct path between the interior of the Peerless and the void, which is something we try to discourage.
Greg Egan
#52. Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Gary Hamel
#53. Instead, as a consequence of racial gerrymandering, "elections nationwide have become more or less permanently structured to discourage politically adventuresome African American candidates who aspire to win political office in majority-white settings.
Jason L. Riley
#54. A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.
Brian Tracy
#55. Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health
Kara Goucher
#56. We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
Lenny Wilkens
#57. That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey
#58. If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.
Roy Jones Jr.
#60. You don't discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer them to read. And not everyone has the same taste as you.
Neil Gaiman
#61. I shall do nothing to discourage my patient, Monseigneur, any more than I shall bleed him, as many good people urge me to do. The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope.
Willa Cather
#62. 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
#63. The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.
Confucius
#65. 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.
Lou Holtz
#66. Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara
Aaron Allston
#67. Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them ... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.
John Dalton
#68. Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
John Dewey
#69. 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.
Tim Ferriss
#70. 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.
Juliet Mills
#71. 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!
Mariah Carey
#72. Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .
Carlos Wallace
#73. China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick
#74. I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.
Stephen W. Thompson
#75. He spewed fire at the rain, though that didn't seem to discourage the storm.
Rick Riordan
#76. China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
Yoshihiko Noda
#77. Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.
Rees Howells
#78. 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 transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
Vayalar Ravi
#79. An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
Benjamin Franklin
#80. Great grief contains dejection. They discourage existence.
Victor Hugo
#81. I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.
Ellen Kushner
#82. 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.
Jascha Heifetz
#83. One can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.
Saki
#84. It's a long journey - the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two steps forward, there is one step back. Don't let that discourage you, because you can play a big part in ensuring that measurable change takes place in the coming decade.
Jack Norris
#85. My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.
Judith Hoag
#86. There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
Ben Katchor
#87. Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. People respond to a reduced cost of idleness by choosing to be idle more often.
Robert Higgs
#88. 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.
Thomas Troward
#89. We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
#90. The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.
Jerry Bridges
#91. Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7
Peter Marshall
#92. 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 day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
Gertrude B. Elion
#93. 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
#94. There is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend ... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
Nathaniel Branden
#95. If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive.
"I'm thirty-five," she said at last.
Garth Nix
#96. Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
Victor Hugo
#97. Necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others - to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.
M. Scott Peck
#98. It may be worth considering whether middle-class American life - for all its material good fortune - has lost some essential sense of unity that might otherwise discourage alienated men from turning apocalyptically violent.
Sebastian Junger
#99. 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.
Russell Means
#100. When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.
Mary Ellen Clark
