Meanness Quotes · Page 2

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We…

— Martha Beck

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if…

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and…

— George Santayana

Injuries come only from the heart.

— Laurence Sterne

“She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.”

— Omar El Akkad

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

— Aristotle

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and…

— Anna Quindlen

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…

— Florence Nightingale

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who…

— Thomas Paine

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly…

— Isabella Beeton

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

— Gautama Buddha

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

— Walter Bagehot

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.”

— Mandy Hale

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

— George Santayana

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is…

— Dean Koontz

“Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap…

— Paula Fox

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

— Will Rogers

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

— Jake Tapper

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and…

— Gillian Flynn

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

— Robert Kiyosaki