Top Petty Quotes
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
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
Ivan Turgenev
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida
Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Maude Adams
To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Jeff Goldblum
Graham Greene 
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Walter Annenberg 
George Carlin 
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop 
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Zi
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Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
Jan Morris
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
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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.
John Carmack
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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Walter Annenberg
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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
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
Nick Carter
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
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