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Quotes About Discouraged

Don't be discouraged or disheartened because transformation gets messy. You are going to have to adjust things on the fly and there is going to be a lot of ambiguity. And sometimes it is going to be two steps forward and three steps back because the next day you will take four and one. You better have a lot of energy and persistence because this is a long-distance race and not a sprint.
~ Aaron Anderson
I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.
~ Sigourney Weaver
What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.
~ Jimmy Iovine
That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an American, and I have nothin' to do with Japan, and so it's sort of an insult to me.
~ Fred Korematsu
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.
~ Magha
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
~ Clyde Tombaugh
We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.
~ Dalai Lama
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.
~ Jane Fonda
In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  
~ Jason Bacchetta
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.
~ Molly Ivins
Every one at some point felt discouraged, it was our faithful companions, who lifted our spirit to find hope again.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.
~ Elizabeth Peters
For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities were hard to come by, anyway.
~ Mary Pilon
Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
~ Archer John Porter Martin
You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I am not okay. Not at all and haven't been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient and all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen and I feared it was written in the stars that I might end up with a reduced life like hers...
~ Deborah Levy
I am not okay. Not at all and haven´t been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient an all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen....
~ Deborah Levy
Remember that your Subjugation lifetrap has the strength of a lifetime of memories and of a multitude of repetitions and confirmations that it is right. Subjugation feels right to you. Your lifetrap is central to your entire self-image and view of the world. Naturally, it is going to fight very hard for survival. You find comfort and reassurance in holding onto your lifetrap, regardless of its negative consequences for your life. You should not become discouraged because change is slow.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.
~ Emma Goldman
I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.
~ Tyler Posey
These false images are deflated so rapidly and completely you're bound to be very discouraged very soon if you've derived your gumption from ego rather than Quality.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned—and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way—all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged. Of
~ Derrick Jensen
A powerful, if misleading, impression that the wealthy were self-made discouraged egalitarian yearnings.
~ Desmond Morton