“You don't have to knock anyone off their game to win yours. It doesn’t build you up to tear others down.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“He looked tired, irritated, and slightly defeated. It was beautiful.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.” — Peter M. Senge Copy Share Image
When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small. — Philippe Nericault Destouches Copy Share Image
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Once you have been confronted with a life-and-death situation, trivia no longer matters. Your perspective grows and you live at a deeper… — Happy Rockefeller Copy Share Image
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao.… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in… — Thomas S. Power Copy Share Image
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you… — A. D. Gordon Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
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