Petty Quotes

Petty Quote of the day

Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Don't be so petty. Sometimes you have to do business with people you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to be like them or like them.

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.