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Quotes About Discouraged

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!
~ Mike Murdock
Within a year, he had discovered it: Harlem, in particular 125th and 126th streets, the broad prospects lined with shops and row houses. "Nearly all of Harlem was for sale," Henry remembered. Block after block of the stone and brick houses built a decade earlier had passed to mortgagees, while those who owned the houses were "thoroughly discouraged and could see little hope in the future.
~ Andrew Meier
I've done this a couple times, been to a couple different camps and a couple different AAU practices to talk to kids. I tell them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, 'What if you get discouraged?' You have to remember what your goal was in the first place.
~ Jahlil Okafor
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
I think, as a kid, whenever you say you want to be an actor, you get discouraged, so perhaps if I had have listened to those people telling me that, I might have gone down the route of a teacher. But I was never really going to do that.
~ Colin Morgan
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
~ Ray Harryhausen
I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
~ Jack Davenport
I wanted to do music at school but they discouraged it. If you did music you couldn't do technical drawing, which meant you couldn't work in engineering and as Vauxhall was the local employer that's what we were all being groomed for.
~ Paul Young
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
~ Edward Felten
innovation is discouraged in most bureaucracies
~ Robert K. Ressler
It had not been a very cheerful journey, not the least for the western excursion into Outlander territory, where a stubborn and pompous old man had refused to listen to the truth; but Corlath had expected what he found and-she thought-saw no use in being discouraged.
~ Robin McKinley
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.
~ Joyce Meyer
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
~ John Glover
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
~ Steve Lacy
Each must be discouraged, but not completely denied all possibility. Men, she had discovered, were ruled by their imaginations in that regard.
~ Robin Hobb
Sometimes we're discouraged because of what we've brought on ourselves. It's not the enemy; it's our attitude. You can't change other people ... how you were raised, who your parents are, but you can change your attitude.
~ Joel Osteen
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.
~ Franco Harris
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
~ Boyd K. Packer
The Americans were badly discouraged. Twelve days to go, stripped of their gear, sniffling, they huddled in a Kraków McDonald's and invoked middle-school platitudes about Cornwallis's surrender and Valley Forge, about pitching crates of tea into Boston Harbor and bloody-soled snow marches for the good of the Republic. We must not quit now, they mumbled, and dipped their chicken nuggets into a tasteless sauce.
~ Anthony Doerr
Keep this in mind, though: sooner or later, you really must study with a teacher, for the practice is long and not easy, and there are many opportunities to become discouraged or confused along the way.
~ John Daishin Buksbazen
BAME kids get discouraged - too many glass ceilings to break through.
~ Lenny Henry
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
~ Bernie Siegel
Everything is perfectly tranquil in Paris, I assure you — theatres full and galleries open as usual. At the same time, timid and discouraged persons say, 'Wait till after the elections,' and of course the public emotion will be a good deal excited at that time. Therefore, judge for yourself. For my own part I have not had the slightest cause for alarm of any kind — and there is my child! Judge....
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning