(160 quotes found)
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
Dale Carnegie
“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“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
“At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment.”
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
“The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.”
William Mathews
“You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold," the priest said to the bishop. The old man smiled. "I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“For why be discouraged, one of thieves was saved, that is a generous percentage.”
Samuel Beckett
“He's persistent. He doesn't get discouraged. He's a quick jumper to basket, a good shooter. I think he's the best low-post guy in the league. You have to keep the ball from him.”
Bill Carmody
“This is awfully discouraging, and he's not the leader anymore, and if this stuff is true, I'm very glad he's not our leader anymore,”
Bill Bennett
“I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discouraged from placing shares at this time.”
Andrew To
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