Quotes About Belittle Someone

#1. 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

#2. It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

C.V. Wedgwood

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.

Marty Rubin

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints

Sunday Adelaja

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.

Steve Maraboli

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

Don DeLillo

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

Ogden Nash

#22. 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

#23. Never belittle love

Preeti Shenoy

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Marianne Williamson

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. You should not belittle yourself or see yourself as worse than others

Sunday Adelaja

#32. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Clive James

#33. 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

#34. I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

Rhys Ifans

#35. 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

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

Ann Voskamp

#37. I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

#38. 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