Pettiness Quotes
Pettiness Quote of the day
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper level. There's no time for pettiness.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone.
You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.
They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.