Pettiness Quotes

46 quotes by 43 authors

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington,… — Chris Christie
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness… — Kevin Costner
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… — Happy Rockefeller
In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence… — Peter Senge
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. — George Iles
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like:… — Rosamond Lehmann
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… — Eduardo Galeano
In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails. — Robert Fritz
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of… — Eric Hoffer
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our… — D. A. Carson
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness,… — Baroness Orczy
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing… — Brennan Manning
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches… — Thomas S. Power
Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams,… — Rob Brezsny
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness.… — Howard W. Hunter
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,… — Zhuangzi
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… — Simone Weil

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