Mean Quotes
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
When you're anointed, you become blessed of God such that everything you touch or do prospers. To be "blessed" means to be empowered to prosper.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there
What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents.
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough
One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.
If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
