Discourage Quotations

I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

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.

I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

We appreciate that people do things as families so we don't want to discourage that.

The provisions will not stop the cable and telephone companies from degrading Internet traffic and they do not contain strong enough penalties to discourage misbehavior.

When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.

Secrecy seems to be the default here. It appears the judge wants to discourage media coverage.

Mulch is really beneficial. I wouldn't discourage anybody from buying it this year.

My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.

Music labels would much rather have variable price, so they can charge more for hits and perhaps less for older tracks. Apple likes the $0.99 price because it is simple, uniform, not too high to discourage buyers, and very easy to administer and merchandise.

Monster findings suggest that workplace relationships are commonplace these days. Some workplaces may discourage relationships, whilst others adopt a more relaxed approach. Whatever code of conduct you choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on your career is paramount.

Negligence is much easier to prove; it's the failure to exercise reasonable care. Willful misconduct is a much higher standard. You must intentionally misbehave. ... The high standard would clearly discourage many suits.

I would discourage us to do that. It's raising an issue or perpetuating an issue that doesn't need to be perpetuated right now.

I don't discourage anybody. If you want to wrestle, you can wrestle.

I do not view this as a negative opinion from a corporate governance standpoint. It should not make those who ignore their responsibilities happy nor should it discourage those who seek greater levels of oversight of directors,

But this doesn't discourage me from living here at all. This could have happened anywhere.

I'm all for people who know rabbits, do the research, ask questions, do the soul-searching, and make sure they're in the position to have a bunny. That's great. But they really need to think about it. We have a fairly lengthy application for bunnies. Not to discourage people -- we want them to realize what they're getting into. It's not a live decoration to leave in a cage.

I feel like I'm NFL material. Just because I didn't get invited to the combine, it doesn't discourage me. It just makes me want to work harder and prove myself.

From our perspective, all savings is good, and I'm loathe to criticize it until we see detailed plans. But the main question it raises is to what extent does this encourage or discourage long-term savings?

He talked about not letting people discourage you from your dreams. There will be people always trying to tear you down, that you should ignore them and go after your goals. It was a great message and I listened to every word he said. Teachers and parents may say the same thing, but coming from a professional athlete, well, that was something you really had to take to heart. And I did.

He has not decided, and we're trying to discourage him from that. I think that he's listening to us when we tell him he needs the assistance of competent counsel.

What you did was not done to discourage looters, but for the key reason of producing trophy photos.

What you can do is, you should discourage coyotes from coming around.

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

I would think the networks would look to partner and encourage experimentation with techniques that involve the viewer and discourage them to skip the commercials.

It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the use of drugs, you can forbid the use of drugs, you can treat people who are addicted to drugs, but you cannot eradicate drugs. Once you accept this point, you may be able to develop a more rational approach to the problem.

Our job is not to discourage someone from filing for public office irrespective of how many offices they file for. I would hope that someone would not (file for office) frivolously, because there is the cost to the district and the resources of the elections office.

Retailers don't want to alienate their loyal customers by making their return policies too strict, but they also need to create policies that discourage return fraud,

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

My Pyramid for Kids doesn't dare to discourage children from consuming so much soda, fast food, candy, and other junk foods.

Loan repayment policies must be improved, so they do not push borrowers into poverty or discourage people from getting a college degree.

limiting the mortgage interest deduction would discourage home ownership and stifle economic growth.

The ads are maybe not the best thing to discourage people (from smoking). If I have an addiction, why would I like look at something that reminds me I'm going to die?

That's the most obscure place you could have it. Most players won't go. I think he set up to discourage as many people as possible from going.

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.

We hope the confusion doesn't discourage people's faith in the University Board of elections.

We are trying to discourage people from doing any outdoors burning. We have not had a really bad fire season in a while. This is as bad as it has been since I have been with the Forestry Commission. But the potential for a truly bad fire season is now.

We had hoped to discourage them in the running game.

Tim conceived the idea to discourage young people from getting sucked into anti-social welfare activities. The climb represents a mission of hope and true lesson in overcoming adversity.

We'll do everything in our power to discourage people walking back and forth between town.

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.

We discourage the armaments up here because it's not necessary on the northern border.

We discourage people from taking it because it could be contaminated. If you must use it, then boil it first.

We discourage family members from coming here, ... They will not be allowed on the premises. This is not the place to come.

We're not going to discourage anyone from applying. The governor has said we have never done anything like this before. It's not going to be very smooth.

We're at this point right now where we have to get it going. There's nothing really than can discourage us anymore. We're a desperate team, and I think we kind of showed that desperation.

The RBNZ has been talking the currency down for over a year and certainly won't discourage further falls. A negative trend in the currency has taken hold and the presumption that the economy will struggle this year, without a much lower currency, will keep it trending lower.

We do discourage playing one off the other,

We should provide incentives to poor African farmers to report immediately if they suspect an outbreak among poultry, and discourage them from rushing to sell birds on the market.

We call it a potential critical fire danger stage. We extremely discourage any outside burning during a red flag.

We are working on that, we're concerned about that, and the last thing we want to do is discourage traffic. We've got to come up with solutions that meet people's needs.

We would never want to discourage anyone's philanthropy.

Why should we discourage people from paying for health care out of their pocket as opposed to through their insurance, the result of which is we tend to over-insure because that gives us a tax break.

With a recent University of Rochester study concluding that the total effect of Sarbanes-Oxley has reduced the stock value of American companies by a staggering $1.4 trillion dollars, it is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

This will definitely gut the head off one of the serpents. We hope this will discourage such activities.

The phrase 'Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' only exists to discourage good people from getting in positions where they can positively affect the world

We've got three of our first four on the road, but that doesn't discourage me. I like getting the road games out prior to the semester starting. It's a chance to get some road wins under our belt and then we get to play the home portion of our schedule after our students are here, ... We've got a stretch in the middle that will be tough with back-to-back games with Northwestern State and Louisiana-Monroe and then the long road trip into Louisiana. That could be a really challenging time frame for us.

We've opened it up. We just want to add more balance to our offense, discourage this idea that you can stop the Steelers by putting eight men in the box.

Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him.

We all agree that access to health care is vital, but these spending mandates will drive away business and discourage job creation.

We're sure not going to discourage people from helping. But we can't just send untrained people into a disaster zone.

Uncertainty over the eventual resolution of this conflict would help discourage aggressive selling interest.

To give more Americans access to broadband, we need to encourage this kind of infrastructure investment, not discourage it with burdensome regulations.

What that would do is discourage traffic from cutting through Beacon Woods, which was a major concern of the residents.

We should be able to agree to disagree, but at the same time, the personal attacks that we see only serve to discourage people who are thinking about putting their name out there from running. We have to be mindful of that.

Based on current conditions, however, it appears that the soybean prices need to be at a level to discourage a large increase in U.S. acreage in 2006.

At the end of the day, does it really destroy investor confidence, does it really result in Indonesia being less able to service its debt, does it totally discourage tourism? It's much less of an impact than that.

Common sense says if you want to help the developing world, you do not discourage people from traveling there.

Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.

COURAGE comes out of the grace of the Lord, it needs generations of learning and struggle. Meanwhile you must start with the first step, the cleansing of the mind and the cultivation of virtue. Even if you do not start with that step, at least do not laugh at those who do and discourage them. Do at least this much!Then, do not depend upon others for doing your work like attending to your personal wants. Do it yourself; that is real freedom.

There's no surprise there. Residential (building) has made a huge impact lately. There are a lot of things in place to discourage builders from commercial development.

There's no way you can discourage kids from going out and partying, so we want to encourage people to be as safe as possible.

The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

It would provide tax deductible interest if she needed to make a withdrawal, it would force her to pay it back, and that would discourage her from using it unless it's absolutely necessary, ... If she tries to save up in a savings account, something will always come up.

The work being done by America's pharmaceutical research companies is the greatest hope of finding additional treatments and a vaccine for avian flu, and policy measures should be developed to encourage these efforts, not discourage them,

These bills discourage companies from offering quality health care at a lower price. Even worse, they won't do a single thing to control the cost of health care for working families or their children.

The system has basically been rigged to protect incumbents and discourage competition.

Put yourself in my shoes. Your team played well and you're trying to make sure you play well again in Game 3. Do you pound it down when it did a lot of positive things? The intent was there, and we don't want to discourage that at all.

Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that antidepressants cause suicides; all the evidence points to the fact that antidepressants do just the opposite.

Actually the prospect of going into debt is just enough to discourage some people from applying to college.

Demand was down nationwide, partly because drivers were off the road in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi because of Katrina, and obviously because high prices are helping to discourage demand.

a number of proposals contained in the draft policy would actively discourage foreign direct investment and the associated financing.

Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

Banks do not want to put security procedures in place that may discourage users from using their services.