Top 427 Diminish Quotes & Sayings

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.

Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

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

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

Growing up, all I learned was how best to diminish my own light for a partner.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

Diminish the influence of fate

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

My age is getting up there, but that doesn't mean my play has to diminish.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.