I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
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.
~By Ian McKellen ~
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
~By Walt Disney ~
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
~By Dannii Minogue ~
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
~By Georg Buchner ~
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
~By Lucille Ball ~
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
~By Donella Meadows ~
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
~By William Penn ~
This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.
~By Donald Evans ~
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
~By Horace Smith ~
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
~By Catherine II ~
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
~By Frances Perkins ~
Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.
~By William Joyce ~
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
~By Jim Courier ~
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
~By Jan Egeland ~
I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
~By Laura Bush ~
I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.
~By Rita Mero ~
Courage is found in unlikely places.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
~By Mary Douglas ~
Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
~By Robert Crumb ~
I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
~By Julius Erving ~
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!
~By Mariah Carey ~
We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Courage is a kind of salvation.
~By Plato ~
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
~By Bob Edwards ~
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.
~By Susan Anton ~
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
~By Loretta Young ~
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
~By Jack Kingston ~
You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
~By Arthur Lydiard ~
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
~By Helen Slater ~
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
~By Linda McCartney ~
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
~By Delmore Schwartz ~
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
One man with courage is a majority.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
~By Michael Steele ~
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.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.
~By John W. Snow ~
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
~By Dave Barry ~
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.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
~By James A. Michener ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
~By Willy Brandt ~
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
~By Paul Desmond ~
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
~By Neal A. Maxwell ~
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~By Harper Lee ~
I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.
~By Robert Towne ~
When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.
~By David Selby ~
In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
~By John M. McHugh ~
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
~By William Blake ~
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
~By Susan Taylor ~
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
~By Alan Autry ~
When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.
~By Della Reese ~
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
~By Pericles ~
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
~By Placido Domingo ~
I encourage everyone to become their dream. Most young people get sidetracked and never end up doing what they really set out to do.
~By James De La Vega ~
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
~By Leland Stanford ~
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.
~By Ed Rendell ~
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
~By Plutarch ~
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
~By Martin Sheen ~
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
~By B. C. Forbes ~
Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
~By Robert Anthony ~
What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
~By Michael York ~
I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~By Plutarch ~
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
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