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  • We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

    Karma   Depressing   Yoga  
  • Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today

    Bad Day   Dark   Dwelling  
    Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby
  • My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I've learned. You've got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don't get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.

    Yankees   Years   Action  
  • Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

  • What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  • Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

  • If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

  • The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

    Reading   Doe   Beginners  
  • Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.

    Real   Writing   Thinking  
  • If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

  • Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

  • Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK
  • Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

    Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard
  • That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

  • If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

    Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.30, New World Library
  • The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

    "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight: A Woman-to-Woman Recipe for Life" by Lorna Stremcha, p. 63, October 18, 2011.
  • Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful knowledge.

  • Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

    David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

    Real   Thinking   Might  
    Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc
  • For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

    Girl   Gossip   History  
  • If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

  • Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  • Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

  • 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.

    Running   Too Late   Boat  
    "Reprise: Diane Wilson - An American Hero". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.kelpiewilson.com. December 3, 2012.
  • To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

    Lonely   Heart   Son  
  • I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."

    Mother   Writing   Son  
  • If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"

    Children   Eye   Thinking  
    "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.
  • 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.

    Long   May   Obstacles  
  • Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!

    Pain   New Day   Champion  
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