Petty Quotes

336 Petty quotes by 271 unique authors

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. — Walter Scott
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? — Adelaide Anne Procter
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good… — A. Powell Davies
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these… — A. Powell Davies
The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold… — Harold S. Kushner
I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a… — Susan Sarandon
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… — Robert Genn
There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always… — Will Rogers
To just burn out, to give up just because things don't go your way, to assume that there is no God, no infinite light -… — Frederick Lenz
If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have… — Frederick Lenz
My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they… — Oswald Chambers
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the great would… — Andrew Ryan
The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character. — Morihei Ueshiba
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)… — Criss Jami
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. — William Faulkner
A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray. — John Dryden
Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase,… — Christiane Northrup
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever… — Karl Marx
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth… — Graham Greene
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. — Pierre Corneille

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