Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own…

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

— Phillips Brooks

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

— Dalai Lama

With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence…

— Dalai Lama

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not…

— Amitabh Bachchan

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

— Richard Wagner

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

— Uddhav Thackeray

I do like Tom Petty an awful lot. I always say that he's my real father, but I'm joking in that imaginary orphan way.

— Christina Ricci

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To…

— William Shakespeare

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your…

— Robert Greene

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of…

— Alexander Herzen

There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

— Edgar Mitchell

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

— Leonard Read

A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures…

— Tadeusz Borowski

If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really…

— Jess Weixler