Petty Quotes - Page 9

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

  Confucius

  Adversity, Faces, Steadfast

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• Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
  not what is bad.
  Petty people do the opposite.

  Confucius

  Opposites, People

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• Your radiance shines
  in every atom of creation
  yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

  Rumi

  Shining, Desire, Atoms

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• 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 it in its folds, and finally causes it to disappear in its capaciousinterior....Hinduism has embraced Sikhism in its folds; the still comparatively young religion is making a vigorous struggle for life, but its ultimate destruction is, it is apprehended, inevitable without State support.

  Max Arthur Macauliffe

  Crush, Struggle, Wind

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• 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 and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

  Paul Fussell

  Strong, Military, Discipline

  "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

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• Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Instruction, Attributes

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• Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

  Adam Haslett

  Ends, Court, Deranged

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• Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Space, Brain

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 29, 2013

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• 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 life.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mean, Odds, Embrace

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.130, New World Library

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• 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 become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Light, Self, Ordinary

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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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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  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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• The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

  Theophrastus

  Ambition, Men, Dinner

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• 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 of their game. I mean, Tony Bennett is the coolest guy I ever met! We have to figure out how to break out of this age ghetto.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Ghetto, Games

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• 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, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

  Olive Schreiner

  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• 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 material wealth, the earth is its mother.

  Karl Marx

  Mother, Father, Use

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.227, Hackett Publishing

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• He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

  Louise Erdrich

  Regret, Body, Spirit

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Levels

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Slave, Hundred

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

  Gaelen Foley

  Cutting, Love Is, Knowing

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• Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

  Timothy Spall

  Mean, Dying, Fool

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• Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

  Liu Bei

  Deeds, Undone, Evilness

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• I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be a person of strong character and bravery - not ordinary people. That what I would call them. It's not like some petty official or something that decided to defect to the other side. For them it was a very serious moment.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Strong, Believe, Character

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