Bo Ryan
Basketball Coach
"You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them."
Discouraging quotes
Discouraging
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it."
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging."
Lynn Abbey
Author
"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."
Umberto Eco
Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
"We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death."
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"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."
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"Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism."
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"Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it."
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