#discourage

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

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

#cannot #discourage #ever #failures #had

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#being #business #compromise #discourage #enough

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#best #destroy #discouraged #get #give

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. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#constitutionally #discourage #hard #hard look #heck

I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ↗

— Linda Ronstadt

#get #i #look #love #may

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

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. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#april #being #big #day #discourage

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally