Petty Quotes
Lines on rising above small-minded thinking.
This page collects quotes warning against pettiness, from fearing petty success more than failure to keeping politics free of petty grievances. For more on facing fear directly, see Afraid quotes.
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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Adversaries Quotes
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
Afraid Quotes
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
'Star Trek' works for me because it deals with the petty issues of humankind.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
Arnold Quotes
Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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One quote also flips the idea, arguing that smallness itself isn't petty but can actually be profound. Browse Adversaries quotes for related conflict themes, or Attendant quotes for something different.
