I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.
The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.
Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.
I discourage a cult of personality.
The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.
Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.
Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging.
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
Never let discouraging people and discouraging situations talk you out of your dream.