As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

I won't tell you that I've never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that's bound to happen.

We all get discouraged.

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

It took me five or six years to write 'How Should a Person Be?' and there were many times when I felt discouraged.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think entertainment tax is too steep.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.

Defenses know how to take you out of the game. I definitely don't get discouraged about it.

It is relatively easy... to determine whether or not a blow to a quarterback was deemed excessive or incidental. So I'm discouraged that there have been a number of games that are influenced - not that the outcomes are in question - but a number of games influenced based on the protection of the quarterback.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.