We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.
The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.
Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.
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.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
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.
Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.
For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.
If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.
You know, when you don't have your real income, your take-home pay increase for a decade or a decade-and-a-half, it makes you awfully discouraged. And then when you see other things in society changing so rapidly, and you think that government is ineffective and unable to - incapable of taking steps, appropriate steps to make sure that America can lead, lead on the international stage and lead the international economy, I think that was so much of this.
Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.
