Discouraging Quotes - Page 15

• ... 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

  Loyalty, Intellectual, Followers

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• I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available. Initially I would keep the prices low enough to destroy the drug trade. Once that objective was attained I would keep raising the prices, very much like the excise duty on cigarettes, but I would make an exception for registered addicts in order to discourage crime. I would use a portion of the income for prevention and treatment. And I would foster social opprobrium of drug use.

  George Soros

  Drug Use, Order, Cracks

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• Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Crush, Sweet

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• Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Wisdom, Humility, Men

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• People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.

  Bob Mayer

  Dream, People, Way

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• 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

  Science, Ideas, Effort

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• You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Happiness, Work, Heart

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

  Mary Ellen Clark

  Success, Sports, Champion

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• Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

  Sam Ewing

  Doors, Cities, House

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• 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

  Struggle, Animal, Thinking

  "Kill scientists, says animal rights chief" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2004.

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• I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.

  Nicole Appleton

  Art, Want, Path

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• Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

  William Kennedy

  Sin, Wells, Streets

  William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Kids

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• If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and accordingly attempts to blur our vision. He lies. He shades and obliterates truth. He makes evil look good and good look unenlightened and unsophisticated. Make no mistake about it: Lucifer will do anything to derail, disappoint, dishearten, discourage, and deceive us—and particularly those who have made and are seeking to keep sacred covenants. His motives are entirely self-centered, selfish, destructive, and evil.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mistake, Lying, Selfish

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• 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

  Determination, Attitude, Mean

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• 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

  Use, Holiness, Spirit

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.30, NavPress

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• The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Writing, May

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.525, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Responsibility, Self, People

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• Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.

  T. B. Joshua

  Encouragement, Genuine

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• One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

  Norbert Wiener

  Learning, Science, Discovery

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• When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Quality, Want

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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