Degrade Yourself Quotes

#1. Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you hatred.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#2. It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

Natalie Portman

#3. Never marry a person less educated than you. You, not only degrade yourself but also your kids will suffer whole life.

Himmilicious

#4. There are two ways to become famous. Degrade yourself or have talent. The first way is easier.

Gary Janetti

#5. The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

#6. I don't like to degrade women, but I like pornography.

Lupe Fiasco

#7. Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

Isidore Of Seville

#9. Those that are meant to be in your life won't degrade you, judge you, or talk about you, because they're too busy loving you and uplifting you. If you put your faith in fickle opinions you'll never be good enough. Focus on God's truth and purpose for your life and you'll find your perfect self

Trent Shelton

#10. Know mankind well,
don't degrade every man as evil,
and don't exalt every man
thinking he is good.
He who cannot discover himself;
cannot discover the world.

Rumi

#11. There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Northrop Frye

#12. How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

Adrienne Rich

#13. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Rumi

#14. A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

Donald Norman

#15. True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it's not confidence at all ... it's ego.

Charles F. Glassman

#16. It is not true that sex degrades women ... if it is any good.

Steve Coogan

#17. Anyone so lacking in empathy that he could systematically torment and physically degrade another should not be suffered to live.

Patrick Rothfuss

#18. You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

Frederick Douglass

#19. People try to get out of themselves and to escape from the man. This is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they turn into beast; instead of lifting, they degrade themselves. These transcendental humors frighten me, like lofty and inaccessible heights.

Michel De Montaigne

#20. Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

Mario Andretti

#21. History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Abigail Adams

#22. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...

Constantine P. Cavafy

#23. My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Charles Dickens

#24. Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

Jacques Barzun

#25. No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Booker T. Washington

#26. I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

Phil McGraw

#27. The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Cicely Tyson

#28. It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#29. Empty words degrade language.

Toba Beta

#30. Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#31. The Greek knows how to live with his rags: they don't utterly degrade and befoul him as in other countries I have visited.

Henry Miller

#32. But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you - the social reformers - see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

Isaiah Berlin

#33. Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#34. Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

Anthony Kennedy

#35. The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

#36. A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

Havelock Ellis

#37. Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Marco Rubio

#38. Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

E. O. Wilson