Diminish Yourself Quotes

#1. Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.

Leonard Jacobson

#2. I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I

Simon Strantzas

#3. It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though
and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger
he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Lev Grossman

#4. In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.

Sadegh Hedayat

#5. God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

Sigmund Freud

#7. Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident ... Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the reader's trust. Readers want a writer who believes in himself and in what he is saying. Don't diminish that belief. Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

William Zinsser

#8. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous, - that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Victor Hugo

#9. Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.

Darin Strauss

#10. The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

Thomas Berry

#11. To use the biblical imagery, Christian theology must acknowledge itself an impoverished earthen vessel while daring not to diminish the value of the treasure it confesses.

Kevin Diller

#12. Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

Peter Singer

#13. A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe ..

Madeleine L'Engle

#14. It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

Kanye West

#15. There is no cause and effect, when one is connected to spirit,
For when desires in a man diminish, he draws nearer to his spirit;
When desires in a man cease to exist, he becomes immortal.

Gian Kumar

#16. The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

Daniel Henninger

#17. When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Margaret Heffernan

#18. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

Giorgio Armani

#19. Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.

Moutasem Algharati

#20. When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the gospel is diminished. And you cannot diminish the gospel without being diminished yourself.

John Piper

#21. When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

Brene Brown

#22. I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Janet Reno

#23. Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

Robert H. Jackson

#24. The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.

Gabe Newell

#26. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.

Anonymous

#27. My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

George Saunders

#28. Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

Chip Conley

#29. Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

James A. Michener

#30. Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.

Bryant McGill

#31. If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

Eavan Boland

#32. In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

Meister Eckhart

#33. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

Winston Churchill

#34. Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

Tamera Alexander

#35. War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#36. Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Allen Klein

#37. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

Joss Whedon

#38. We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Caspar Weinberger

#39. Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

Francis Quarles

#40. Suffering, if it does not diminish love,
will transport us to the furthest shore.

Gautama Buddha