Diminish Quotes · Page 5

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

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

— May Sarton

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

— Andy Stanley

We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

— Dorothy Day

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

— Leonard Jacobson

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

— Janet Reno

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes.

— Gene Black

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

— William James

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging…

— Arthur Ashe

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

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes…

— Peter Heller

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong…

— Robert H. Jackson

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit…

— Michael Steele

“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the…

— George Orwell

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding…

— L. Neil Smith

I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted…

— Bernard Arnault

Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it…

— John Earle

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of…

— Dalai Lama

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that…

— John Burroughs

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for…

— Robert Capa

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ…

— Maximus the Confessor

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial…

— Charles Babbage

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty…

— James Madison

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.

— Tony Robbins

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

— James Kerr

“I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I”

— Simon Strantzas

If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.

— Joan D. Chittister

“It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you.”

— Meg Wolitzer

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

— Thomas Traherne

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day

— German Proverb

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

— Anonymous

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

— Dean Koontz

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

— Stephen King

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

— Blaise Pascal