Petty Quotes

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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 and journalists are trying to write fiction.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.