Ella Wheeler Wilcox

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

American Writer

Keiko Agena

I do get a little disheartened when you hear about how many girls get discouraged to not pursue a career in the sciences, and I feel like seeing women that are portrayed in this way - and beyond that, just three dimensional, complicated women - those are always going to be the stories that I gravitate to most.

American Actress

James Salter

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.

American Novelist

Wilson Cruz

What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character.

American Actor

Chris Cornell

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.

American Musician

Blase J. Cupich

We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

American Clergyman

Mike McCready

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

Sonoya Mizuno

I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.

Japanese Actress

Bernice King

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

American

Joseph Joubert

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

French Writer

Use 'dishearten' when someone feels a loss of hope after trying hard.

Lost Hope

'Dishearten' often describes a strong emotional setback.

Emotional Impact

'Dishearten' suggests a temporary feeling, not a permanent state.

Not Permanently

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 and and save this species we've done I think an incredible job of protecting habitat and yet we're still seeing the population declining and that's read disheartening for me what makes life interesting on this planet is the incredible biodiversity that that surrounds us it's what it's what I live

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 That is, they had moved so far from the concrete world that they could even ignore the appearance of the symbols that were involved in the question. Now, I should say one thing that's very disheartening. We haven't made progress on all fronts. One of the ways in which we would like to deal

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 But nonetheless, I find myself thinking about those emails every time I reflect back on the bias and prejudice that I've faced in my life, or when there's another hate crime or a senseless tragedy that underscores the disheartening sense that our differences might be insurmountable.

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 And I had no idea how the disease might progress. But what was most disheartening was to listen to other people advise me to limit my ambitions and dreams, and to change my expectations of what to expect from life.

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 And besides, growing old only postponed the inevitable, time seeing through what circumstance did not. It was all a bit disheartening. A list, though, would last. To chronicle a life year by vulnerable year

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 and I knew what they were doing to others was wrong. And so I petitioned. I sent out impassioned pleas for support. But it didn't work. I think I got like 330 signatures. And that was really disheartening.

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 won't be having a biological child -- some by choice, some by chance. But I was not alone. But the more I read, the more disheartened I became.