Discouraging Quotes

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, God, Stay Strong

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.42

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

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, Might, Pay

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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Honesty, Lying, People

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

  Haile Selassie

  Goal, Rainbow, Horizon

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• 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

  Strength, Stay Strong, Motivational Sports

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• Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health

  Kara Goucher

  Trying

  Kara Goucher (2011). “Kara Goucher's Running for Women: From First Steps to Marathons”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

  Charles Stanley

  Disappointment, Choices, Discouragement

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• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Sound, Libertarian, Thrift

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Christine Gregoire

  Foundation, Welfare Reform, Our Future

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• Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

  Joel Osteen

  Broken, Needs, Discouraged

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• 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 trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

  Charles Stanley

  God, Disappointment, Choices

  "A Disappointment" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2016.

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• It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

  Ed Belfour

  Sports, Frustrated, Way

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• Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

  George Mason

  Art, Slavery

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• 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 come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Years, Dollars, Cost

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• 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

  Writing, Play, Two

  1961 In Life.

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• 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

  Congratulations, Failure, Progress

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• 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

  Giving, Champion, Racing

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Blinded, Bedrock

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• 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.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Wisdom, People, Ambitious

  1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Crabbed Age and Youth'.

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• Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

  Alfred Adler

  Real, Creativity, Blessing

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• Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Two, Sometimes

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Dream, Determination, Giving Up

  Mariah Carey's remarks at Madison Square Garden, 1995.

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