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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.
I never got discouraged for long, but we all got our butts kicked musically.
Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think entertainment tax is too steep.
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
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.
Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.
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.
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You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'
Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder
People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn't discouraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had.
Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.
My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.'
I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.
People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.
Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.
A balanced person will get depressed, discouraged, frustrated and angry sometimes, but doesn't direct it towards anybody else. If they do, they quickly realize they made a mistake.
I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
One reason I think I am able to work with such dark material is the fact I was never really discouraged from making this kind of work.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
Don't get discouraged with your skin when it doesn't do what you want it to do... Give it some time. That's the only way to get to know yourself.
Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
When we stumble don't get discouraged. Get up and Keep Trying.
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.
The N.F.L.'s rule on underclassmen should be abolished, and the N.B.A. should be discouraged from adding an age limit.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
