9 Pettiness Quotes for You to Enjoy

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. Margaret J. Wheatley

Life Work Needs Daily Angry Anger Together People Losing Greed Own Our Distrust Only Well Encounter Deceitful Intent Capacity Much Who Pettiness Satisfying Daily Life

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. Martin Heidegger

Life Death Myself Anxiety Will Face Free My Life Become Only Take Squarely Acknowledge Then Pettiness

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. Jean Racine

Heart Others Never Noble Felt Malice Suspect Cannot Pettiness

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace. Brennan Manning

God Grace Denial Guilt Impress Our Hiding Ourselves Out About Points Gospel Fix Trying Flat Flat Out While Pettiness

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. Kevin Costner

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness. Russell Smith

Good People Writing Darkest Good People Abandon Must Ability Able Morality Writers Self Simply Exciting Qualities Access Essential Screen Stories Cannot Whether Page Pettiness

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. Simone Weil

Work Best Great Above Write Put Because Ends Them Themselves Separating Works Pettiness Lives Necessarily Stressing

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness. Jeetendra

Life Will Overthrow May Your Plans Pettiness