John F. Kennedy

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

American President

JaVale McGee

Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.

American Athlete

Anna Garlin Spencer

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

American Educator

Gord Downie

I used to run the band hockey pool - regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to demoralize and diffuse enjoyment for others.

Canadian Musician

Marie Louise

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

French Royalty

Guy Fieri

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

American Businessman

Howard Mumford Jones

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

American Writer

Peter Diamandis

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

Elif Batuman

It's important not to censor yourself and not to get upset or demoralized when you write bad stuff.

American Author

Patrisse Cullors

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

American Activist

Demoralize often implies strong emotional effects, such as feelings of defeat or loss of spirit.

Emotional Impact

'Demoralize' is about affecting morale, not physical strength or ability.

Not Physical

It can be used when a person or event has power to undermine others' confidence.

Power Dynamics

Use 'demoralize' to discuss negative impact on systems like governance, law, or organizations.

Social Systems

Refers to reducing the ethical or moral standards within a system.

Loss of Integrity

Clarify that demoralizing a system often has lasting, negative consequences.

Long-term Effects

 who used dogs and dogsleds. Scott's team were on foot, all five of them wearing harnesses and dragging around sledges, and they arrived at the pole to find the Norwegian flag already there, I'd imagine pretty bitter and demoralized. All five of them turned and started walking back to the coast and all five died on that return journey.

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 Our mind is hard to change once we become convinced. So it might be very natural to feel demoralized and defeated after you fail. But you cannot allow yourself to become convinced you can't succeed. You have to fight feelings of helplessness. You have to gain control over the situation.

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 So the clock started ticking. I started seeking out triathletes because I found that lifelong swimmers often couldn't teach what they did. I tried kickboards. My feet would slice through the water like razors, I wouldn't even move. I would leave demoralized, staring at my feet.

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 The ones who didn't survive were the optimists. They said, "We'll be out by Christmas," and Christmas would come and Christmas would go, and then it would be Christmas again, and when they didn't get out, they became disappointed, demoralized

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 “we are all here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." We might get pooped and demoralized, but Vonnegut interspersed his grim assessments with more than a few morsels of hope.

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 and it causes the activity itself to lose morality. Barack Obama said, before he was inaugurated, "We must ask not just 'Is it profitable?' but 'Is it right?'" And when professions are demoralized,

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 professions are demoralized everyone in them becomes dependent on addicted to incentives and they stop asking is it right we see this in medicine and we certainly see it in the world of business

Our loss of wisdom -...

 Having seen how our dreams of democracy and how our dreams of coexistence were crushed in Turkey, both gradually but also with a bewildering speed, over the years I've felt quite demoralized.

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 Now that you're sufficiently demoralized, time for part a math test. And unbeknownst to you,

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 so if you look at our son at the moment you can see that he's demoralized a