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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

– Winston Churchill

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 Milhous Nixon

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, Years of Upheaval

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

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

– Matthew Arnold

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

– Chuang-tzu

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

– Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things

I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing.

– Charles Bukowski

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

– Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

– Henry David Thoreau

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, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

– Edward Abbey

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

– Edward Abbey

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

– Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

– Jose Ortega y Gasset

Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction.

– Theophrastus

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

– William Feather

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

– William Shakespeare

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

– Aesop

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