Pettiness Quotes

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Andre Maurois

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

Richard Armour

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.

Christopher Hitchens

Priority is a function of context.

Stephen Covey

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Wallace Stevens