Welcome to our collection of Discourage Quotes, where we delve into the wisdom and insights surrounding the theme of discouragement. In life, we often encounter moments of doubt, setbacks, and challenges that can leave us feeling disheartened. However, it is in these moments that the power of resilience, perseverance, and positive thinking shines the brightest.
Discouragement can manifest in various forms, whether it’s facing rejection, experiencing failure, or feeling overwhelmed by obstacles on the path to our goals. Yet, it’s essential to remember that setbacks are not synonymous with defeat. Instead, they offer opportunities for growth, learning, and self-discovery. Through the words of thinkers, writers, and leaders from various walks of life, we can find solace, motivation, and inspiration to navigate through moments of discouragement with grace and determination.
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. Suzanne Fields
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation. Jacob Epstein
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here – in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
I was no stranger to doors shutting in my face during the early days of my business. And I could have easily let that discourage me – too many aspiring entrepreneurs do. But instead, I learned that whenever I heard the word ‘no,’ I would turn on the charm and find a way to engage in a conversation with the person telling me ‘no.’ Kendra Scott
Whatever you do, don’t discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart’s desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. Orison Swett Marden
Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns. Joe Johnston
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Lynn Abbey
It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared. Ron Wyden
Those ‘Idol’ shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it’s the last thing in the world I’d ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. Kris Kristofferson
Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve. Stephanie Coontz
As far as Dustin or Dusty, neither of them contributed to me wanting to be in the industry as far as encouragement. They didn’t discourage it, but I think they both were indifferent as far as it had to be my decision. Cody Rhodes
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Robert Louis Stevenson
I discourage a cult of personality. Newt Gingrich
I started making original music during my YouTube process. And as a young female, dealing with a lot of male producers who were older and had more so-called experience, they would discourage me, telling me that what I was doing – and even my vision – was never going to work. And that lasted quite a long time. Sabrina Claudio
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. Linda Ronstadt
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you. Mariah Carey
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Thomas Paine
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. Burning Spear
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. Lenny Wilkens
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. Franklin P. Jones
The mandated use of so-called ‘vaccine passports’ poses a huge risk to the personal liberty and privacy of millions of Americans and could actually discourage people from getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Nancy Mace
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. Richard Stallman
Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates. Bill Dedman
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you. Ralph Marston
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. Les Claypool
The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India. Phil Gramm
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there’s a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. Charles Stanley
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. Jane Yolen
While the Internet can’t be controlled 100 percent, it’s possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing. Rebecca MacKinnon
I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn’t allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn’t want to do music anymore. Poo Bear
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. Amber Tamblyn
If we go the direction that many of the leaders of this country want and close the borders and discourage new immigrants, then we are ruining the possibility of new ideas and new experiences. W. Kamau Bell
When we assume that ‘normal’ people need ‘time to heal,’ or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted. Stephanie Coontz
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. Thomas Sowell
Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack. Tom Rooney
This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream – don’t ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me! Mariah Carey
Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other. Murray Rothbard
Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking. Angus Deaton
The powers, conditions, and desires that propel Mexicans and Central Americans into this country are so fundamental, so vast, that no action, legislative or other-wise, can discourage this flight. Greg Boyle
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let’s discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority. Adam Grant
In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications. I’d say the problem is in the nature of the job ChromeOS is designed to do. Richard Stallman
There is nothing you can tell me to discourage me. Ann Coulter
I think it’s important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do. Rose Namajunas
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. Christy Turlington
I do not have a son; if I had a son, I wouldn’t necessarily discourage him from playing football, but I don’t know that I would encourage him to play, either. Troy Aikman
You’re going to play a lot of tournaments during the year, a lot of traveling. If you have a good set of mind, you’re committed to the work, you want to do that work, and you definitely got to do it. Doesn’t matter if you have four, five, six losses in a row, that doesn’t have to discourage you to stop all of a sudden. Grigor Dimitrov
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree. Arne Duncan
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds. Juliet Mills
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education. Russell Means
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself. Yoshihiko Noda
There’s something exciting about weekly strips in that you’re following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it’s a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage. Ben Katchor
It would probably surprise people how prevalent reading is in institutions – and the degree to which some states discourage reading by instituting draconian rules and laws that try to limit and outright roadblock books in prisons. George Pelecanos
It is incumbent on the media industry to discourage the glorification of media violence. It is also incumbent on consumers who love America to support this effort with selective patronage campaigns to encourage media that provides uplifting content and to boycott the worst offenders, if necessary. Bernice King
If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity. Scott Garrett
Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable. Jerome Powell
While people can differ on the issues, no one should seek to discourage freedom of speech. Stan Van Gundy
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler
China’s one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary. Barbara Demick
Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things. Lou Holtz
If something’s gonna make you happy, and you know it’s gonna make you happy, and it’s what you want more than anything in the world, don’t let someone else discourage you and talk you out of doing it just because they’re doubters. Brett Young
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit. Allyson Schwartz
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans
Our job is to help people take ownership of the process of electing their government. As leaders, our job is to inspire others and not discourage them. David Ige
If you discourage saving and investment, that means you’re walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You’re discouraging good job creation and job growth. Scott Garrett
If President Obama has his way, you won’t recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists. Bob Ehrlich
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. Craig Robinson
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort. Quintilian
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing
The Toast’s audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there’s not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay. Daniel Mallory Ortberg
My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music – especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth. Andrew Ridgeley
I tend to discourage people from calling me ‘Sir Ian,’ because I don’t like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you’re writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They’re impressed by these things. Ian Mckellen
When you have those two languages – an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done. Joseph Brodsky
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
Even with good maps, there’s no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas. Bill Dedman
When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, ‘No, that’s for the classical students.’ There’s always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go. Jamie Cullum
Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat. Joseph Stiglitz
St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn. Mother Angelica
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, ‘What makes the difference? What is it?’ I’ve known people the world has thrown everything at – to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don’t ask quarters. Horton Foote
Mentally, I don’t think there’s anything that can discourage me. Daniel Jacobs
Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing. John Ridley
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. Calvin Coolidge
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. William Temple
And it’s just my opinion that I don’t think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don’t want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way. Dave McCary
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Gary Hamel
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana. Dana Rohrabacher
The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. Mark Helprin
If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don’t think there is. So I don’t think there’s a choice here. Ed Rendell
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. Major Taylor
I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise. Carl Hart
Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. Sidney Sheldon
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it ‘complex fluids.’ This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing. Tim Ferriss
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it’s hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead. Nicole Appleton
It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. Stephen Kinzer
Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets. Jose Angel Gurria
We’ve never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company. Jason Fried
