Top 164 Discouraging Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.
It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.
YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.
We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
I always loved skating but you can get hardened by it and it's discouraging and disheartening.
It's the bedsit culture: people get a cat, and then, in a few months, when they move on or go travelling, they just throw the animal out. It's so discouraging.
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.
When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.
I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.
If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.
it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.
When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'
We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.
It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.
It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.
If you accept failure as learning,
it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Never let discouraging people and discouraging situations talk you out of your dream.
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!
I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.
