Top 25 Belittle Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Belittle Quotes from famous people such as Michael Jackson, John Ridley, Michael Gove, Don DeLillo, SZA, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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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
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.
John Ridley
Don’t belittle the hurt that has been caused by the job-destroying machine that is the European Union.
Michael Gove
When you try to unravel something you’ve written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
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.
SZA
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.
Pankaj Kapur
I don’t think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don’t think of myself that way. I’m not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I’ll always be a dancer.
Judith Jamison
Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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.
Dominique Moceanu
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
Larry Hogan
Groves is a fool. Groves is a fake. I will never let him belittle me like he’s done with Carl Froch.
James DeGale
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.
Gary Bettman
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it’s important not to belittle the child audience.
Rhys Ifans
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.’
Maya Angelou
When my wife and I met, I couldn’t talk to her – and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said ‘Hi’ – and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, ‘I think I just met my wife.’
Mike Vogel
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.
Keith Flint
I take it personally when people belittle our employees and misrepresent our record as an employer.
Steve Easterbrook
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.
Mark Leyner
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.
Robert Morgan
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.
Stormy Daniels
I get stuff every single day whether that be comments on my Instagram photos, or tweets about a tweet that I put out. Just tweets that they make in general to just pick on me, make me feel bad about myself, belittle me or anything. It’s not good.
Rhea Ripley
Any other illness, any other disease that we’re faced with, there’s sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, ‘Oh, they’re crazy,’ to belittle the problem.
Chris Wood
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.
Corey Stewart
When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle this process and the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. America doesn’t cower behind political correctness. It defiantly and courageously moves forward, with its history as a reminder of where we have been.
Markwayne Mullin
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.
Colin O’Donoghue