Definition of Discourage

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Discourage

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.

To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

Lack of courage; cowardliness.

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Discourage Quotations

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

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

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

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

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

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

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
Lynn Abbey

I discourage a cult of personality.
Newt Gingrich

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
Mariah Carey

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
Mariah Carey

Discourage Translations

discourage in Dutch is afschrikken, verjagen
discourage in German is entmutigen, entmutige, abschrecken
discourage in Italian is scoraggiare
discourage in Latin is infringo infregi infractum, adflicto affligo
discourage in Norwegian is ta motet ifra
discourage in Portuguese is desanime
discourage in Spanish is descorazonar, desanimar

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