Top 98 Quotes About Belittle
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
Marianne Williamson
#8. 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
#9. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
#10. You should not belittle yourself or see yourself as worse than others
Sunday Adelaja
#11. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#12. 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
#13. I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
Rhys Ifans
#14. 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
#15. Don't belittle everyday pots and pans - they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.
Ann Voskamp
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.
Marty Rubin
#27. 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
#28. It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
C.V. Wedgwood
#29. 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
#30. God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints
Sunday Adelaja
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.
Steve Maraboli
#35. When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
#36. 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
#37. Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.
Thomas S. Monson
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
Rick Warren
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.
Chris Zylka
#45. People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
Norman Vincent Peale
#46. If she is wrong educate her, don't belittle her..
Eyden I.
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin Scorsese
#50. If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
Warren Farrell
#51. Life is too short to belittle
Unknown
#52. 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
#53. When life belittle and trick you, you will forget protocol...
Ikechukwu Joseph
#55. We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
John Piper
#56. 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
#57. Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
Robert Morgan
#58. 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
#59. It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Steve Jobs
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
Michael Gove
#65. Stay away from people who belittle your ambition, small people do that, but great people make you like to be great!
Mark Twain
#66. Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?
Edith Wharton
#67. I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.
Jamaica Kincaid
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
Brene Brown
#76. 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
#77. People often belittle the place where they were born.
Mitch Albom
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
R.A. Salvatore
#83. 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
#84. I believe that we belittle survivors by assuming that they will fail.
Toni Bernhard
#85. Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize.
Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.
Toba Beta
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#93. Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
Corita Kent
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. 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
#98. 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
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