Top 153 Deter Quotes & Sayings

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

I loved Stephen so much that nothing could deter me from wanting to marry him.

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Gun-free zones don't deter criminals-they help them by providing a guarantee that they will not face any armed resistance. But they do deter the law-abiding. A faculty member with a concealed-handgun permit who breaks the campus gun ban would be fired and likely find it impossible to get admitted to another school. Bringing a firearm into a gun-free zone can have serious adverse consequences for law-abiding people. But for someone like the Virginia Tech killer, the threat of expulsion is no deterrent at all.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

The Covid situation in India didn't deter me because I felt I would be safe within the IPL biosecure bubble.

We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

There will always be people who try to deter you or crush your confidence but don't let them knock you back. Focus on gaining the support of the people you respect.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I've never let the criticism deter me.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

The inability to access evidence or intelligence despite the lawful authority to do so significantly impacts the FBI's ability to identify, investigate, prosecute, or otherwise deter criminals, terrorists, and other offenders.

We need to deter Putin from further actions because this is a very real threat.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

In public life, differences should not deter us from acknowledging the good work done by others whom we may not agree with.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.

If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him.

Obsolete weapons do not deter.

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all domains.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

Difficulty does not deter me. In fact, I find challenges exciting.

I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.