Pettiness Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
— George Iles
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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
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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
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In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
— Robert Fritz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Pettiness Quotes
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