Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues. — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It’s such a wonder how people can diminish the worth of your relationship.” — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga Copy Share Image
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“I give you the gift of love. You do not need to accept it. It does not diminish the gift. Not accepting… — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem. — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Republican voters believe we should have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest. They don't believe we should enter… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image