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How to use the word discouraged in a Sentence? Page #3

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As people of faith, we're never discouraged, it was very refreshing to see our interfaith allies outnumbered the protesters.

Imad Enchassi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are disappointed in the ruling but not discouraged, and we have always assumed that this case was going to go to the appeals court.

Brian Concannon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It could have a huge impact on whether LRA fighters that remain within the group are encouraged to come out of the bush or are very discouraged.

Paul Ronan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I ’m not discouraged and I ’m not downtrodden, this is a God thing and He’s going to do great things and He will vindicate me publicly.

Kelvin Cochran

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These people are putting their lives at risk and instead of being appreciated many of them are facing unfounded stigma on their return, they should be lauded when they come back home… not discouraged from volunteering.

Sarah Wilson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

New York City Bike Share's management of Citi Bike left too many New Yorkers in the lurch, while Citi Bike has become part of our urban landscape, auditors found that the bike sharing program's spotty maintenance, poorly-cleaned bikes and substandard docking stations inconvenienced riders and discouraged growth in the system.

Comptroller Scott Stringer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Thomas J. Watson

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9 years ago

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Napoleon Hill

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs

added by anonymous
10 years ago

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

Queen Victoria

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Magha

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12 years ago

Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

C. C. Colton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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 Milhous Nixon

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14 years ago

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Alva Edison

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14 years ago

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.

Lucille Ball

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14 years ago

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

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14 years ago

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Thomas Sowell

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14 years ago

Would you like me to give you a formula for...success It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

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14 years ago

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