Petty Quotes - Page 7

• Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Giving, Discouraged, Great Presidents

  Address to members of administration on leaving office as president, 9 Aug. 1974

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• I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Eye

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Faces, Steadfast

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• A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

  Zhuangzi

  Jail, Thieves, Nations

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• I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Political, Challenges

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  When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  Tyrants, People, Gentleman

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• Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, People, Purpose

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Ministry, Politics, Infuriating

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• Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Loyalty, Party, Men

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• It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  True Evil, Rejection, Atrocities

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• Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Stars, Regret, Wings

  "A Legend of Provence" l. 284 (1861)

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• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• You, methinks you think you love me well;
  For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
  Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
  Not ever be too curious for a boon,
  Too prurient for a proof against the grain
  Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
  Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
  Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
  But work as vassal to the larger love,
  That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Love You, Mean

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  George Julius Poulett Scrope

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

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• The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Order

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.41, GENERAL PRESS

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Regret, Congratulations, Sleep

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• The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Men, Mind

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• Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Selfish, Men

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• You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way, with that madness in the eyes of man that is wisdom in the eyes of God. Take risks, search and search again, search everywhere, in every way, do not let a single opportunity or chance that life offers pass you by, and do not be petty and mean, trying to drive a hard bargain.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Spiritual, Crazy, Mean

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• All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

  George Orwell

  Memorial Day, Ideas, Evil

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• We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Letting Go, Reality, Order

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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  Ouida

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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