Don't Belittle Quotes

#1. Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.

Robert Cheeke

#2. It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

Lee Unkrich

#3. You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

#4. Don't belittle everyday pots and pans - they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.

Ann Voskamp

#5. Belittle, v.
No, I don't listen to the weather in the morning. No, I don't keep track of what I spend. No, it hadn't occurred to me that the Q train would have been much faster. But every time you give me that look, it doesn't make me want to live up to your standards.

David Levithan

#6. When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.

Rita Zahara

#7. At least as coherent as the Gettysburg Address backwards in Albanian, anyway.

Norman Spinrad

#8. It's a very brave thing for anyone to do, offering love to another person. We make ourselves so vulnerable when we do it, don't we? We give that other person such power to hurt us and to rob us of our dignity. No one should ever belittle that gift, nor the giver.

Lynn Hall

#9. When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Don DeLillo

#10. Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.

Judith Jamison

#12. Encourage don't belittle, embrace their individuality. And show them that no matter what they will always have value if they stay true to themselves.

Solange Nicole

#13. Maybe we would've been better off if those memories had never been sent. Maybe we could learn to breathe again if we could only forget tomorrow.

Pintip Dunn

#14. If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her..

Eyden I.

#15. Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.

Michael Gove

#16. There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.

Richard Selzer

#17. If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

John LeFevre

#18. Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.

Elizabeth Goudge

#19. Ben Says: Those that constantly talk down and try to belittle you are just trying to make themselves feel bigger by making you feel small. Don't let them succeed ... just rise above them.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#20. Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

Chris Guillebeau

#21. Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize.
Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.

Toba Beta

#22. As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Noel Coward

#23. Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Corita Kent

#24. Susan had never before come across the idea that you could rise in Society by, as it were, gaining marks, especially since such noblemen as she'd met in her father's house had used neither serviette nor napkin but a state of mind, which was Drop it on the floor, the dogs'll eat it.

Terry Pratchett