Top 98 Quotes About Belittle
#1. Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Steve Jobs
#2. 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
#3. He loves us. On our own terms. He treats us as equals to the men around him; he listens; he does not belittle; he honors us; he challenges us; he teaches us; he includes us - calls us all beloved. Gloriously, this flies in the face of the cultural expectations of his time - and even our own time.
Sarah Bessey
#4. In 2007, people tried to belittle me a little bit and sort of take the credit away from me and my team and what we achieved.
Casey Stoner
#5. Be careful what you tell yourself, and do not belittle yourself, even in jest. Negative, deprecating self-talk can do significant harm to your self-image.
Cheryl L. Ilov
#6. I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.
Jamaica Kincaid
#7. Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?
Edith Wharton
#8. Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!
Mark Twain
#9. Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
Michael Gove
#10. Admitting we are not God - not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things - doesn't belittle us; it frees us.
Louie Giglio
#11. I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'
Maya Angelou
#12. Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#13. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
John Ridley
#14. It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college
the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
Robert Morgan
#17. Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you.
Toni Sorenson
#18. We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
John Piper
#20. When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol...
Ikechukwu Joseph
#21. Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?
Og Mandino
#22. Life is too short to belittle
Unknown
#23. If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
Warren Farrell
#24. Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin Scorsese
#25. Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize.
Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.
Toba Beta
#26. You can't belittle a person in one breath and then expect them to grow self-respect and self-reliance with the next.
Tim Greaton
#27. Our flesh, having been worn by the Most High Himself is the most noble mantle of all. The Manicheans and Buddhists and Platonists on the one hand, who belittle this flesh, and the gluttons and lechers and egoists on the other, who are slaves to it, are still living in division.
Mark Shea
#28. Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.
Colin O'Donoghue
#29. They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson
#30. Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
Corita Kent
#31. Because that's how snobs deal with uncomfortable subjects. We belittle their importance, laugh at them, and change the subject to weather or sport.
L. H. Cosway
#32. I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.
Mark Leyner
#33. Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.
Preeti Shenoy
#34. Here is, very simply, what I learned about Jesus and the ladies: he loves us. He loves us. On our own terms. He treats us as equals to the men around him; he listens; he does not belittle; he honors us; he challenges us; he teaches us; he includes us..
Sarah Bessey
#35. When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.
Hafez
#36. It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#38. I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.
Toni Bernhard
#39. 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
#40. I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
R.A. Salvatore
#41. Unless he'd missed is guess, Miss Joanna Robbins possessed the soul of a missionary. How that had come to be when she'd been raised by an outlaw and his gang, Crockett couldn't fathom. Yet he sensed her passion. Respected it. He'd not belittle her dream.
Karen Witemeyer
#42. 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
#43. I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#44. Parental criticism is unhelpful. It creates anger and resentment. Even worse, children who are regularly criticized learn to condemn themselves and others. They learn to doubt their own worth and to belittle the value of others. They learn to suspect people and to expect personal doom.
Haim G. Ginott
#45. People often belittle the place where they were born.
Mitch Albom
#46. 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
#47. You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
Brene Brown
#48. Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
Thomas S. Monson
#49. I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
Rhys Ifans
#50. You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
Aaron Copland
#51. They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones.
Joanne Lipman
#52. As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assaults, we are playing right into the hands of those who silence victims by asking: "who would believe you anyways?".
Laura Bates
#53. If you must belittle others to make yourself feel better, then you should do silently, in your own mind, where only you will suffer from your poison.
Kel Kade
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us ... subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.
Billy Graham
#57. The practice of overcoming hope is recognizing our positive qualities. With excessive hope, we begin to belittle what we have achieved. We might then feel inadequate and have fear of not achieving more.
Sakyong Mipham
#59. Don't belittle everyday pots and pans - they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.
Ann Voskamp
#60. My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. It's not a proper feedback if it's given to flatter and/or belittle someone. True feedback should be given to empower someone perform better.
Assegid Habtewold
#62. The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#64. You should not belittle yourself or see yourself as worse than others
Sunday Adelaja
#65. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
#66. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
Azar Nafisi
#67. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
Marianne Williamson
#68. 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
#69. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#70. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
R. Scott Bakker
#71. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
#72. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.
Ashleigh Slater
#73. Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.
Marty Rubin
#74. The enormous condescension of posterity was the magnificent phrase employed by E. P. Thompson to remind us that we must never belittle the past popular struggles and victories (as well as defeats) that we are inclined to take for granted.
Christopher Hitchens
#75. If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her..
Eyden I.
#76. People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
Norman Vincent Peale
#77. When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.
Chris Zylka
#78. The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse.
Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
#79. 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
#80. Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
Rick Warren
#81. The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
Immanuel Kant
#82. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark
Bennett Madison
#83. 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
#84. Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.
Thomas S. Monson
#85. 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
#86. When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
#87. Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.
Steve Maraboli
#88. 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
#89. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#90. It was hard to be honest, to open up, and reveal something that sounded crazy. Because once you told someone the truth, that person had a piece of you - and they could belittle it, destroy it. They could turn your confession into a wound that never healed.
Sarah Cross
#91. God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints
Sunday Adelaja
#92. To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.
Judith Arnold
#93. It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
C.V. Wedgwood
#94. Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Kahlil Gibran
#95. Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
Dominique Moceanu
#96. A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Michel De Montaigne
#98. Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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