Belittle Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• 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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Ambition, People

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• 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

  Action, Compassionate, Be Careful

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• Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

  Rick Warren

  People, Littles, Feels

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 04, 2013

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• To belittle, you have to be little.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Kindness, Kids

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• When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.

  Bruno Tonioli

  People, Feels, Threatened

  "I was the only gay in my village..Humor helped me to beat the bullies". www.mirror.co.uk. November 26, 2005.

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• I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

  Alice Walker

  People, Television, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Support, Forgiving, Heal

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• 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

  Motivational, Determination, Jealous

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• I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Hate, Angel

  "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.

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• 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

  Eye, Mind, Dresses

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• 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

  Stupid, Believe, Intelligent

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• It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Kindness, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.258, Macmillan

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• You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

  Brené Brown

  People, Shame, Behavior

  Brené Brown (2007). “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"”, p.20, Penguin

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Comfort

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• 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

  Hurt, Pride, Trying

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

  Steve Jobs

  Motivation, Criticize

  "16 Examples Of Steve Jobs Being A Huge Jerk" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• 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

  Nice, Thinking, Mad

  "Women at Work: A Guide for Men" by Joanne Lipman, www.wsj.com. December 12, 2014.

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• There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Praise

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• 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

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dream

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• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

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• 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

  Praise, Ifs, Bounds

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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

  Don DeLillo

  Trying, Literature, Way

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.75, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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