Browsing Topic Best Mean Quotes

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, ‘I have fallen, but I will get up.’

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

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.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don’t think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Holiness doesn’t mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Potential means you haven’t done anything yet.

To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don’t mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.