Diminish Quotes - Page 20

• Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Way, Dare

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• Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Freedom, Liberty

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

  Eavan Boland

  Grief, Ifs

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Purpose

  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy". "Century" Illustrated Magazine, Volume 60, June 1900.

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• Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Hands, Opposites

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• Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

  L. Neil Smith

  Equality, Law, Each Day

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• God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

  Max Lucado

  Evil, Stupidity, Succeed

  Max Lucado (2003). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk with the Savior”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Sound, Harmony

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• One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

  Dalai Lama

  Self, Focus, Anxiety

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

  Haim Ginott

  Hurt, Children, Disappointment

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• The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.

  Horace Mann

  Fall, Yield, Law

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.184

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• An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Educational, Training

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• All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

  Mark Doty

  Mark Doty (2009). “Heaven's Coast: A Memoir”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

  Marc Faber

  Children, Years, Next

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• One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

  Francis Galton

  Law, Land, Civilization

  "Hereditary Talent and Character". MacMillan's Magazine, 12, 1865.

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• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,
  And take to light claret instead of pale ale;
  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,
  And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Light, Wish, Looks

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Names, Doe

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• [The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Military, Distance, Moving

  "Conflict and Defense: A General Theory". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, p. 245, 1962.

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• The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, Air, Proportion

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• Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

  Publilius Syrus

  Growing Up, Grief, Grows

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• Since every death diminishes us a little,
  we grieve - not so much for the death
  as for ourselves.

  Lynn Caine

  Sad, Death, Grieving

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”, William Morrow & Co

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• My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

  Paul Goodman

  Sex, Self, Views

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• To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Circles, Envy, Bitter

  "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

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