Belittle Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

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.

Jim doesn't yell and scream to get a point across. He doesn't belittle players. He has his ways of getting his point across, but it's in a professional manner. And this coaching staff follows his lead.

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

We don't belittle the funding per se, it's that the money did not go through the proper channels. Our criteria are objective as opposed to subjective.

When our offensive line plays well, we have a chance to move the football. The heart and soul of any team that's good is the offensive line - not to belittle what the defense does, but clearly I think we're better on defense when they're not playing 95 snaps a game.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

I've never spoken to Coach Weber about Patrick. Big-time head coaches know they talk to the high school coach. This is why the top city kids are going outside the state. I'm not trying to belittle Illinois. My son goes there. I love Illinois.

I like the way we started the game. But the tone was set for the game in the second quarter when we had all the turnovers. It's good to get a win and you certainly don't want to belittle a win on the road.

Oh man, that would not be good. I think it would be a dangerous thing for anyone to jeopardize the integrity of our court system like that, or to even joke about it. It would belittle the whole essence and core of our integrity.

I'm not really sure we have a population base that would support that. I'm not trying to belittle the problem, but I don't think the solution is a dental school.

No attempt should be made to belittle Society and benefit only the family, for, it is bound to fail.

That is so offensive. If people knew how much Terri loved my father ? all of us. If they knew how much she loved him ... That is a totally ridiculous and, as I said, offensive statement to think that my dad would ever, ever belittle Terri.

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.

Everybody can't be equal, but my motto is that you never belittle anybody. I told my daughter to move on with her life. She's staying with in-laws in North Carolina. She has nothing to come back to here.

I certainly will not belittle this. Some may see it as a mere symbolic upgrade, with little to do with sport.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. He goes after their dignity, their self-worth, and I don't think there is a woman anywhere who doesn't know what that feels like.

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

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

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

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

People often belittle the place where they were born.

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

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

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

People use ridicule to belittle something perceived big enough to fear.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people alwaysdo that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Keep away from small 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.

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.

When ridicule is shrill, remember people only bother to belittle something they perceive big enough to fear.

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