Top 98 Belittle Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

We compare everything with what is being done in the West. Even the film reviews are written like that. It is sad because we are trying to belittle ourselves.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.

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

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.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Groves is a fool. Groves is a fake. I will never let him belittle me like he's done with Carl Froch.

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

"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".

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.

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.

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

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

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.

Don't belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.

If you're gay, that doesn't mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don't want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

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

To belittle, you have to be little.

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.

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

I don't fly the Confederate flag on my property, but I'm not going to try to belittle or embarrass anybody who wants to do that.

People ask if I would do the TT myself - the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can't belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

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.

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

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

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.

Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?

I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn't work.

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.

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.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

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.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

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

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.

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.

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.

It is so rubbish when comics belittle their children in the misguided belief that it makes them look cool.

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.

I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me.

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

I try, when I go into places, not to belittle what's gone before, because I know how difficult it is to manage, and everybody does it differently.

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?

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

Accessible music is much harder. I could throw out the other kind of albums with my eyes closed. I wouldn't belittle those who want to do the Tricky thing, but it does make me wonder sometimes.