Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;… — Samuel Gompers
You've got a lot to look forward to in Heaven. Compared to what's in store for you in Heaven, your current pain and problems are… — Rick Warren
Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our… — Jerry Bridges
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the… — Saint Augustine
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private… — Ernst Cassirer
There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is… — Lena Dunham
This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. — Adriana Trigiani
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm… — Adam Gopnik
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. — Confucius
Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else… — Melody Carlson
It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round its opponent, crushes… — Unknown Author
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power… — Paul Fussell
Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God. — Abdul Sattar Edhi
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court. — Adam Haslett
Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits. — Robin Sharma
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… — Kent Nerburn
The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before… — Swami Satchidananda
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. — Zhuangzi
When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty. — Jon Stewart
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts… — George Mason
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self. — Stephen Covey
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. — Theophrastus
Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the top… — Bonnie Raitt
If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock,… — Olive Schreiner
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… — Karl Marx

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