Discouraging Quotes - Page 12

• Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

  Judy Blume

  Trying, Determined, Ifs

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• Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few.

  Hal Elrod

  Moving, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

  J. Robbins

  Jobs, House, Support

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

  Sherwood Anderson

  People, Facts, Possession

  Sherwood Anderson (2013). “The Egg and Other Stories”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Beauty, Faces, Admire

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• 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

  Ambition, Evil, Tasks

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.114

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• The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

  Pascal Boyer

  Violence, Cost, Stakes

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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• There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

  Emily Dickinson

  Silence, World, Earth

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.901, Harvard University Press

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• Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

  Rees Howells

  Loss, Delay, Circumstances

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• Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.

  Tony Rothman

  Thinking, Opposites, Age

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• What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Struggle, Two, People

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Men, Divinity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.147, Vintage

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• 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

  Meaningful, Heart, Voice

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• In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Numbers, Purpose, World

  1971 Economics, Peace, and Laughter.

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• It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn't worth the effort.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Effort, Energy

  Roger Ebert's review of "Deep Throat", www.rogerebert.com. March 6, 1973.

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• I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybe—if I go ahead and finish it anyway—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.

  Joan Didion

  Hate, Book, Color

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• We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Kindness, Real

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Drinking, Smoking, Ideals

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's remarks in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending, September 3, 2005.

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• I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, Play, People

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• I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.

  Gore Vidal

  Firsts, Finished

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Believe, Humble, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.249

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• A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

  William O. Douglas

  Exercise, Atheism, Prudent

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