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.
Richard M. Nixon
41 quotes about petty follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau
This is about the children, not petty politics. That is exactly what is going to hurt our children.
Margaret Ponga
It's funny, because if Tom Petty or R.E.M. came out today, they'd be alt-country.
Rhett Miller
So I've realized that this outfit is part of Richard Petty now. And the real Richard Petty is still hidden behind these glasses.
Richard Petty
I wish I could go back and race against David Pearson and Richard Petty.
David Stremme
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
George Grosz
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
Phillips Brooks
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.
Ben Dattner
I think it's the musicianship, the energy of what we do that makes people get into us. We'll do a Harry Chapin song, then Tom Petty, then Bob Marley. If we like it, we learn it. We don't learn a song because it's popular; we learn it because we like it.
Mark Waelti
The neutrals and not-so-neutrals of the Third World to air their petty disputes and pretend to be involved in humanitarian causes.
Javier Perez De Cuellar
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
It wasn't that big of a deal, and it didn't ruin my life or anything since it was more of a joke, but it just seems so petty of them.
Noah Skube
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.
John W. Holt, Jr.
I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.
Benji Levi Madden
They made off with four computers and some petty cash. Some money that was left around to buy stamps and the like.
Bill Brennan
There are fewer of the Earnhardt and Petty signs. Because, for example, we have a Kulwicki Grandstand and the Kulwicki Terrace - so there are tons of those. It just depends on how much seating is in each area.
Barbara Kaiser
It may be petty, but the J.F. Ryan quotes were poorly assembled and contain simple spelling errors.
Peter Whitney
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Chuang tzu
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
Nick Carter
There is petty corruption at administrative level ... People pay bribes in order to accelerate their business.
London School
Any squabble Roger and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention, then it's got to be worthwhile.
David Gilmour
When I was a big buddy, I [was] benefiting more: kids make me realize that people sweat the petty things in life.
Tawny Toering
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Sir Winston Churchill
Even after such a tragedy, they (India and Pakistan) have not been able to rise beyond petty politics.
Ghulam Qadir
It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.
Catherine Young
That's just emotion; he wants to win so bad. With big guys, there are so many petty jealousies that exist. ... I mean, if he missed a dunk or an easy shot, sometimes the place would go wild. To me, that's kind of sad, but it goes with the territory.
Monte Mattei
A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
Henry Kissinger
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather
There was simply this bullying, reduction of 25 percent, which most of us in the community was malicious, and petty, and the sort of thing that most of grew out of a long time ago.
Eric Murray
The selection of these actors portraying foul-mouthed, drug-using, petty criminals as representative of East Coast music is ludicrous at best and an insult to every music-loving Canadian in general, and East Coasters in particular.
Edward Marsh
This isn't petty. This is a test they asked taxpayers to pay a lot of money for ... There shouldn't be any hiding anything here.
Ed Parkinson
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