Top 255 Discourage Quotes & Sayings

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

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Mentally, I don't think there's anything that can discourage me.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

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

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

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

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.

What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.

You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health

There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

Showing weakness will encourage your opponents. It inspires them. It encourages them to hit harder. To come faster. But when you don't show any fear, or when you don't show any hurt, you have the opportunity to discourage your opponent. You discourage your enemies. The bottom line is, if you think properly, you don't even have to think about all of that. All you have to think about is that guy across from me is human, and so am I. And he'll never out-work me. He'll never out-think me. And if you can't out-work me, and you can't out-think me, you'll never beat me.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

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

I certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in the sky.

There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little or no evidence, and worse still and far more important, nothing to discourage him from the habit of starting with a generalization and ending up with the individual, instead of the other way round.

Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

I discourage a cult of personality.

While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

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

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.