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Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.
People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.
Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
When you struggle, you're going to be a little discouraged. But I never felt like I was overmatched.
It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.
Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.
Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.
It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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 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.'
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.
You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.
Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.
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.
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.
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.
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people
I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.
If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.
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.
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.
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.