Discouraged Quotes - Page 17

• I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

  Meaghan Rath

  Class, Feelings, Doe

  "Playing Dead". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.backstage.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Giving Up, Believe

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

  Joyce Meyer

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• We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Excited

  Joyce Meyer (2008). “Straight Talk on Discouragement: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word!”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Long, May, Obstacles

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• A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Wise, People, Sick

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.15, Random House

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• Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Church, Down And

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• The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Drinking, People, Poison

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• Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

  John Lubbock

  Heart, Too Much, Beaten

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• 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

  Giving Up, People, Goal

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• I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Blow, Wind, World

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• Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

  Diane Wilson

  Running, Too Late, Boat

  "Reprise: Diane Wilson - An American Hero". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.kelpiewilson.com. December 3, 2012.

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• Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets.

  Henry Giroux

  Names, Wings, Issues

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

  Alice Lowe

  Thinking, Easy, Easy To Get

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.

  Rand Paul

  Military, War, President

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• Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

  James O'Toole

  Leadership, Resilient, Setback

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• I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Spiritual, Animal

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• I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

  John Kasich

  Leader, Minorities, Partnership

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Cities, Matter

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• There are places that are thriving in America that don't need very much help, and then there are places where people feel so discouraged and so left behind, like nobody cares about them. And I want to try to help there.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, People, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Past, Race, Three

  "Is Reality Optional?". Book by Thomas Sowell, November 22, 1993.

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• We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Moving, Holiness

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• When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.

  Buster Posey

  Struggle, Littles, Felt

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• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

  Jehan Sadat

  Graduation, War, Men

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• Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Focus, Promise

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