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Demean Quotes

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Israelmore Ayivor
“7 things negative people will do to you. They will...
1. Demean your value;
2. Destroy your image
3. Drive you crazily!
4. Dispose your dreams!
5. Discredit your imagination!
6. Deframe your abilities and
7. Disbelieve your opinions!

Stay away from negative people!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: 7-habits-of-negative-people, abilities, ability, bad, bad-friends, bad-people, companions, crazily, crazy, deframe, demean, destroy, disbelieve, discredit, dispose, disvalue, drive, food-for-thought, friends, friendship, good-friends, ideas, image, imaginations, israelmore-ayivor, negative, negative-people, negativity, opinions, people, potentials, power, stay-away, thought, toxic-people, value
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Criss Jami
“A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy
tags: advice, compelling, consideration, constructive-criticism, demean, demeaning, discernment, encourage, encouragement, examination, heart, individual, love, pure, rebuke, self-examination, sincerity, spirit
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel
tags: demean, inspirational, pride
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: attributes, bad, bad-behaviour, bad-friends, bad-people, bin, blur, companions, crazily, crazy, debris, deframe, demean, destroy, disbelieve, discredit, dispose, disvalue, downgrading, drive, endowments, food-for-thought, friends, friendship, good-friends, ideas, image, imaginations, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, opinions, people, potentials, power, recycle-bin, stay-away, thought, toxic-people, value
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Dōgen
“Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.”
― Dōgen, A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki
tags: buddha-nature, demean, zen
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Israelmore Ayivor
“God created everyone to love and to be loved; If you will not take care of people, just leave them as they came...DON'T SCRATCH THEM with your actions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor
tags: beloved, care, careful, careless, create, creations, creator, demean, destroy, do-my-prophets-no-harm, everybody, everyone, food-for-though, god, harm, i-love-you, insult, israelmore-ayivor, keep-good-care, leave, let-alone, love, love-you, loved, lovely, loving, pastor, people-love-me, preaching, rescue-the-perishing, scratch, take-care, touch-not-my-annointed-ones
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: abase, abash, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, beautiful, beauty, boyfriend, boyfriends, chastened, cut-down-to-size, debase, deferential, deflate, degrade, demean, desire, diffident, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, humble, humiliate, humiliation, humor, humour, husband, husbands, joke, jokes, like, love, lower, lust, lust-for, make-eat-crow, make-eat-humble-pie, man, meek, men, modest, mortify, overbearing, proud, respectful, satire, self-deprecating, self-effacing, settle-someone-s-hash, shame, subdued, submissive, take-down-a-peg-or-two, ugliness, ugly, unassertive-unpresuming, unassuming, want, wanted, wife, wives
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Michael Ben Zehabe
“A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
tags: criticizing, demean, hate, husband, marital-wisdom, saving-a-marriage, shulamite, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, wife
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“Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.”
― Unarine Ramaru
tags: advice, compelling, consideration, constructive-criticism, demean, demeaning, discernment, encourage, encouragement, examination, heart, individual, love, pure, rebuke, self-examination, sincerity, spirit
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Gil A. Waters
“Don't demean what I know is one of your favorite body parts.”
― Gil A. Waters
tags: body, demean, douche, douche-bag, men, sex, sexuality, sexy, vagina, women
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“You can choose to look more objectively and see what you can do to improve, or accept the way that you are, with a smile. Things won’t get better by attacking and demeaning yourself. Relax and encourage yourself instead.”
― Steve Peters
tags: accept, attack, demean, encourage, improve, relax, smile
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