Petty Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

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

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